Strong G1601ἐκπίπτω

to fall out

Transliteration
ekpiptō
Pronunciation
ek-pip'-to
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G1537 and G4098; to drop away; specifically be driven out of one´ s course; figuratively to lose become inefficient: - be cast fail fall (away off) take none effect.

Detailed definition

ἐκ-πίπτω
[in LXX: Isa.40:8 28:1, 4 (הֶבֶל), Job.14:2 (מָלַל, see RV. mg), Job.15:30 (סוּר), Job.15:33 (שָׁלַךְ hi.), etc.;]
to fall out of, fall from, fall off: before ἐκ τ. χειρῶν, Act.12:7; absol., Act.27:32; of the withering of flowers (as LXX, ll with), Jas.1:11, 1Pe.1:24" (LXX); of navigators falling off from a straight course, Act.27:17, 26 27:29 Metaphorical, with genitive of thing(s): Gal.5:4, 2Pe.3:17; absol., fall from its place, fail, perish: Rom.9:6.†
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In the Bible

Strong G1601 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • fall8
  • falleth2
  • cast1
  • effect1
  • faileth1
  • ye1

First verses

  1. Mark 13:25
    And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
  2. Acts 12:7
    And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
  3. Acts 27:17
    Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
  4. Acts 27:26
    Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
  5. Acts 27:29
    Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
  6. Acts 27:32
    Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
  7. Romans 9:6
    Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
  8. 1 Corinthians 13:8
    Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  9. Galatians 5:4
    Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
  10. James 1:11
    For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
  11. 1 Peter 1:24
    For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  12. 2 Peter 3:17
    Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
  13. Revelation 2:5
    Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
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ἐκπίπτω,
future -πεσοῦμαι: aorist ἐξέπεσον: perfect ἐκπέπτωκα:— fall out of, δίφρου [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.585; ἵππων 11.179; ἀντύγων ἄπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1193, etc.: with _dative_ _person_, τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.465)]; θαλερὸν δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε δάκρυ fell from his eyes, [Refs (2.266: _absolutely_,)]fall out, [Refs (23.467)]; fall down, of trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.2.7; οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀστέρες ἐκπίπτειν)]meteors, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.54U. —After 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, in various relations, frequently as)]passive of ἐκβάλλω:
1 of seafaring men, to be cast ashore, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔπεσον θυμηγερέων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.283; ἐ. τῇσι νηυσὶ ἐς Ἰηπυγίην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.138; πρὸς τὰς πέτρας [prev. author] 8.13; πρὸς πέτραις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1211)]; ναυαγὸν ἐ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 539; ἐ. πρὸς τὴν χώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 866d)]; of things, suffer shipwreck, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.5.13)]; of fish, to be cast up, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 601b32.)]
2 fall from a thing, i.e. be deprived of it, ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ εὐδαιμόνων ἐς πτωχηΐην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 1.1)]; τυραννίδος, ἀρχῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 756, 757; [ἀπὸ] τῶν ἐλπίδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.81; ἐκ τῆς δόξης 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.64; τῶν ὑπαρχόντων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.51 W.)]
3 to be driven out, [ἐκ τῆς ἀκροπόλιος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.72)]; to be banished, ἐ. ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.150, compare 6.121; ἐ. χθονός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 766, compare “Aj.” 1177; ἐ. πολέμῳ ἢ στάσει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2; γυμνὸς θύραζ ἐξέπεσον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 244)]; ὑπό τινος by a person, ἐκ Πελοποννήσου ὑπὸ Μήδων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.141; ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.66, compare “Inscription Prien.” 37.71; πρός τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 948, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 679:—in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.50 the preposition ἐς is corrupt.)]
4 of limbs, to be dislocated, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 8, etc.)]; of flesh, mortify and separate itself, [Refs ([prev. author] “Fract.” 27)]; so ἐ. ὀδόντες, πτερά, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 745b6, “HA” 519a26, etc.)]; of atoms, ἐκπεσοῦσαι κατέψυξαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 60.)]
5 go forth, sally out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.74; ἐκ τοῦ σταυρώματος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.11: _absolutely_, [prev. author] “An.” 5.2.17)]; of rays, issue forth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Aphr. “de An.” 127.31.)]
6 come out, of votes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.10)]; turn out, happen, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 70.27, +others)]
7 escape, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.95.)]
8 of oracles, issue, χρησμὸς ἐκπίπτει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 43, etc.; ἐκπεσεῖν φωνὴν ἐξ ἄλσους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 9)]; to be published, become known, εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀπαιδεύτους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 314a; φήμη ἐ. ἐς τοὺς Ἕλληνας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 5: _absolutely_, ἀπόκρισις ἐ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.32.10.)]
9 depart, ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.31; ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 495a.)]
9.b digress, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.88; ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ λόγου 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.34)]; but ἐ. τῆς διανοίας miss the sense, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Aristotelis Meteora commentaria - pars” 7.26)]; fall outside of a class, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “de Anima liber - pars” 169.17.)]
10 of things, escape one unawares, φασὶν ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτούς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1111a9, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 8; ἐ. τὴν αἴσθησιν 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in librum de sensu commentarium - pars” 147.18)]; of reason, fail, be lacking, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1202a3.)]
11 degenerate, εἰς ἀλλότριον ἦθος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 497b)]; εἰς τὴν Φρυγιστὶ ἁρμονίαν slip into.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1342b11)]: absolutely, come to naught, [NT (NT.Rom.9.6)]; to be dilapidated, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.204.74.)]
12 of actors or dramatic pieces, to be hissed off the stage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.265, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456a18, 1459b31)]: so of orators, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517a, compare “Phlb.” 13d.)]
13 ἐ. ἑαυτοῦ lose one's self-control, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.36)]; ἐ. σκοποῦ miss the mark, [Refs ([prev. work] 8.7.)]
14 of things, arise from, ἔκ τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 136.3.)]
15 of money, cease to be current, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 7.303.14 (Oropus, 3rd c.BC).)]
16 run to excess, δι᾽ ἀοριστίαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 63; [ὁ πλοῦτος] εἰς ἄπειρον ἐ. [prev. author] “Sent.” 15, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JConf.” 7.)]
16.b Geometry texts, as passive of ἐκβάλλω, to be produced, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 14.)]
17 die, χθὼν ἐκπιπτόντων [Refs (“Not.Scav.” 1923.35)] (unless, = rubbish heap).