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Strong's #1968 - ἐπιπίπτω
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ἐπιπίπτω,
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1. fall upon or over, ἐπέπιπτον ἀλλήλοις Th. 7.84; ἐπί τι X. Oec. 18.7, cf. Thphr. CP 5.4.5: metaph., ἐπέπεσε μοῖρα Pi. Pae. 2.64; ἐπί τι Isoc. 5.89; διαλογισμοὶ ἐπιπίπτουσί τινι Plu. Oth. 9.
2.. of money, accrue, τὸ μέρος ὃ εὑρίσκομες ἐπιπῖπτον ἐπὶ τὸ χρέος τὸ ὀφειλόμενον SIG 953.66 (Cnidus, ii B.C.).
II.
1. fall upon in hostile sense, attack, assail, τινί Hdt. 4.105, Th. 3.112; ἀφυλάκτῳ αὐτῷ ἐ. Hdt. 9.116; ἀφάρκτῳ τῷ στρατοπέδῳ Th. 1.117; ἀπαρασκεύοις τοῖς ἐναντίοις X. Cyr. 7.4.3; also ἐς τοὺς Ἕλληνας, v.l. for ἐς-, Hdt. 7.210; of storms, τοῖσι βαρβάροισι ὁ βορῆς ἐπέπεσε ib. 189; χειμὼν ἐπιπεσών Pl. Prt. 344d; of winds meeting one another, Arist. Mete. 364b3; of diseases, Hp. Aër. 3; ἡ νόσος ἐ. τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις Th. 3.87; so of grief, misfortunes, etc., οὐχὶ σοὶ μόνᾳ ἐπέπεσον λῦπαι E. Andr. 1043 (lyr.), etc.; ἐπέπεσε πολλὰ καὶ χαλεπὰ κατὰ στάσιν ταῖς πόλεσι Th. 3.82, etc.
2.. come on after, ἐ. ῥῖγος πυρετῷ Hp. Aph. 4.46.
3.. accumulate, πλήθη σίτου ἐπιπεπτωκέναι PPetr. 2p.62 (iii B.C.).
ἐπι -πίπτω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5307;]
to fall upon (Field, Notes, 25): c. dat. pers., Mark 3:10 (v. Swete, in l), Acts 20:10; seq. ἐπὶ τ . τράχηλον (as Genesis 46:29, Tobit 11:8, 3 Maccabees 5:49, al.), Luke 15:20, Acts 20:37. Metaph., φόβος , Luke 1:12, Acts 19:17, Revelation 11:11; ὀνειδισμοί , Romans 15:3 (LXX); of the Holy Spirit: seq. ἐπί , c. dat., Acts 8:16; ἐπί , c. acc, Acts 10:44; Acts 11:15; absol., Acts 23:7.†
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The idea of ";hostility"; appears in P Petr II. 18(2b).14 (B.C. 246) καὶ ἐπιπεσὼν ἔτυπτεν [αὐ ]τ [ὸ ]ν κατὰ τοῦ τραχήλου : cf. P Flor II. 168.4 (iii/A.D.). In illustration of Mark 3:10 Field Notes, p. 25, aptly cites Thuc. vii. 84 ἄθροοι γὰρ ἀναγκαζόμενοι χωρεῖν ἐπέπιπτόν τε ἀλλήλοις καὶ κατεπάτουν. The subst. ἐπίπτωμα is found in PSI III. 252.28 (iii/A.D. ?) as a medical term; cf. Hobart, p. 44, on the use of the verb in the TR of Acts 13:11.
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