ἐφάλλομαι
ephállomai · G2177 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to jump on, to leap upon
To leap or jump onto a place or object
ExamplesActs 19:16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
How it’s used In 2 roles
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὁρμάω hormáō · G3729 · to rush, to run
- ὁρμάω describes violent rushing movement toward or upon something (Matt 8:32, Acts 7:57, 19:29), capturing the aggressive sudden movement component of ἐφάλλομαι, though without the specific 'leaping' nuance—it emphasizes the violent onset of motion.
In the other Testament 2 words
- פָּשַׁט pâshaṭ · H6584 · to cast (one's) skin, to shed (one's) skin, to strip off (skin)
- Hebrew פָּשַׁט in its sense of 'to rush upon' or 'to make a dash/raid' (Judg 9:33, 1 Sam 27:8) serves as a functional equivalent for the violent action of springing/leaping upon someone, sharing the core semantic component of sudden aggressive movement toward a target.
- נָפַל nâphal · H5307 · to fall, to sink, to let fall
- Hebrew נָפַל with the preposition עַל ('upon') is used idiomatically for attacking or falling upon someone (Gen 43:18, Judg 15:12), capturing the same semantic domain of sudden aggressive physical action directed at a person, which overlaps substantially with ἐφάλλομαι.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To jump on, to leap upon15.239
- In Acts 19:16, of the man with the evil spirit it is written, “the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them,” using this verb for suddenly jumping upon someone.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 2 aorist participle ἐφαλόμενος L T Tr WH; (ἐπί and ἅλλομαι, which see); from Homer down;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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