ἀποπίπτω
apopíptō · G634 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to fall, to fall from, to fall off
To fall from a particular point or location
ExamplesActs 9:18 And immediately something like fish scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom+ ὀφθαλμόςeye 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εὐθέωςimmediately, right away, then 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- προσκολλάω proskolláō · G4347 · to join, to join oneself to, to become a part of
- Lexical opposite expressing firm attachment or clinging to something, contrasting with ἀποπίπτω's sense of falling off or detaching from something.
In the other Testament 2 words
- נָפַל nâphal · H5307 · to fall, to sink, to let fall
- Primary Hebrew verb for 'fall' — the natural translation equivalent for ἀποπίπτω in contexts where something falls off or away. This is the standard Hebrew equivalent used for various Greek πίπτω compounds.
- נָשַׁל nâshal · H5394 · to fall off, to take off (sandals)
- Hebrew verb specifically denoting 'to fall off' or 'drop off' (e.g., leaves falling from trees), closely matching the ἀποπίπτω semantic of detachment or falling away from something.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To fall, to fall from, to fall off15.120
- In Acts 9:18, at Ananias's touch, “immediately something like fish scales fell (apépesan) from his eyes, and he regained his sight,” describing a scale-like covering dropping away from Saul's eyes.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 2 aorist ἀπέπεσον; ((cf. πίπτω); from Homer down); to fall off, slip down from: Acts…
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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