ἘΠΙΠΕΣΕΙΝ, ἐπιπεσειν
EPIPESEIN, epipesein
Sounds Like: eh-pee-peh-SEIN
Translations: to fall upon, to fall on, to fall down on, to rush upon, to attack
From the root: ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΩ. It describes the action of falling or rushing upon something or someone, often with the implication of an attack or an embrace. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἘΠΙ (upon, on) and the verb ΠΙΠΤΩ (to fall).
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1968 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 22:106
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΙΠΕΠΤΩΚΑΣΙΝ — have fallen upon, have fallen on, have fallen, have come upon, have come on
- ἘΠΙΠΕΣΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to fall upon, to fall on, to fall down on, to rush upon, to fall upon (of a spirit), to fall upon (of a disease), to fall upon (of a person)
- ἘΠΙΠΕΣΗ — falls upon, falls on, falls, falls down, comes upon, comes on, comes, rushes upon, rushes on, rushes
- ἘΠΙΠΕΣΟΙ — may fall upon, may fall on, may fall, may come upon, may come on
- ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΕΙΝ — to fall upon, to fall on, to fall down before, to embrace
- ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΟΙΕΝ — they might fall upon, they might fall on, they might fall down before, they might embrace
- ἘΠΙΠΙΠΤΩΝ — falling upon, falling on, falling down, rushing upon, assailing
- ἘΠΙΠΤΟΝΤΩΝ — of falling upon, of falling on, of falling down before, of those falling upon, of those falling on, of those falling down before
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