ἐπιβάλλω; imperfect 
ἐπεβαλλον; future 
ἐπιβάλω; 2 aorist 
ἐπέβαλον (3 person plural 
ἐπεβαλαν, 
Acts 21:27 T Tr WH; 
Mark 14:46 T WH (see 
ἀπέρχομαι, at the beginning)); 
1. Transitively, 
a. to cast upon: 
τίνι βρόχον, 
1 Corinthians 7:35; 
τίνι τά ἱμάτια, 
Mark 11:7; (
χοῦν ἐπί τάς κεφαλάς, 
Revelation 18:19, 
WH marginal reading); 
to lay upon, ἐπί τινα τήν χεῖρα or 
τάς χεῖρας, used of seizing one to lead him off as a prisoner: 
Matthew 26:50; 
Mark 14:46 R G L; 
Luke 20:19; 
Luke 21:12; 
John 7:30 (
L marginal reading 
ἔβαλεν), 44 (
L Tr WH the simple 
βάλλειν); 
Acts 5:18; 
Acts 21:27 (for the Hebrew 
פ אֶל יָד שָׁלַח..., 
Genesis 22:12); also 
τάς χεῖρας τίνι, 
Mark 14:46 T Tr WH; 
Acts 4:3 (
Polybius 3, 2, 8; 5, 5; 
Lucian, Tim. 4); 
ἐπιβάλλειν τάς χεῖρας followed by the infinitive indicating the purpose, 
Acts 12:1; 
τήν χεῖρα ἐπ' ἄροτρον, to put the hand to the plow (to begin work), 
Luke 9:62. 
b. to put (i. e. sew) on: 
ἐπίβλημα ἐπί ἱμάτιον, 
Luke 5:36; 
ἐπί ἱματίῳ, 
Matthew 9:16. 
2. Intransitive, (as in Greek writings from 
Homer down (cf. 
Winers Grammar, 251 (236); 
Buttmann, 144f (126f)) 
to throw oneself upon, rush upon: 
εἰς τό πλοῖον, of waves rushing into a ship, 
Mark 4:37; 
to put one's mind upon a thing, attend to, with the dative of the thing: 
τούτῳ γάρ ἐπιβαλλων for if you think thereon, 
Antoninus 10, 30; 
μηδενί γάρ ἐπιβάλλειν μηδετεραν (i. e. 
τήν αἴσθησιν καί τήν νοησιν) 
χωρίς τοῦ προσπιπτοντος εἰδώλου, 
Plutarch, plac. phil. 4, 8; absolutely, 
ἐπιβαλών, SC. 
τῷ ῤήματι τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, when he had considered the utterance of Jesus, 
Mark 14:72; cf. 
Kypke (
Wetstein (1752), McClellan) at the passage; 
Buttmann, 145 (127); (and for the different interpretations see Meyer and especially Morison at the passage). 
3. Impersonally, 
ἐπιβάλλει μοι it belongs to me, falls to my share: 
τό ἐπιβάλλον (namely, 
μοι) 
μέρος τῆς οὐσίας, 
Luke 15:12 (
κτημάτων τό ἐπιβάλλον, 
Herodotus 4, 115; 
τό ἐπιβάλλον αὐτοῖς μέρος, 
Diodorus 14, 17, and the like often in other writings (see Meyer; 
σοι ἐπιβάλλει ἡ κληρονομία, Tobit 6:12 (cf. Tobit 3:17; 1 Macc. 10:30, etc.))). 
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