Word Summary
peripiptō: to fall around
Original Word: περιπίπτωTransliteration: peripiptō
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-pip'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to fall around
Meaning: to fall around
Strong's Concordance
fall into.
From peri and pipto; to fall into something that is all around, i.e. Light among or upon, be surrounded with -- fall among (into).
see GREEK peri
see GREEK pipto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4045: περιπίπτωπεριπίπτω: 2 aorist
περιέπεσον; from
Herodotus down;
so to fall into as to be encompassed by (cf.
περί, III. 1):
λῃσταῖς, among robbers,
Luke 10:30;
τοῖς πειρασμοῖς,
James 1:2 (
αἰκίαις,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 51, 2 [ET];
θανάτῳ,
Daniel 2:9;
Diodorus 1, 77;
νόσῳ,
Josephus, Antiquities 15, 7, 7;
συμφορά, ibid. 1, 1, 4;
τοῖς δεινοῖς,
Aesop 79 (110 edition Halm);
ψευδέσι καί ἀσεβέσι δόγμασιν,
Origen in Joann. t. ii. § 2; numerous other examples in
Passow, under the word, the passage cited (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 3); to which add, 2 Macc. 6:13 2Macc. 10:4;
Polybius 1, 37, 1 and 9);
εἰς τόπον τινα, upon a certain place,
Acts 27:41.