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Strong's #1601: ekpipto (pronounced ek-pip'-to)

from 1537 and 4098; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient:--be cast, fail, fall (away, off), take none effect.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ekpiptō

1) to fall out of, to fall down from, to fall off

2) metaphorically

2a) to fall from a thing, to lose it

2b) to perish, to fall

2b1) to fall from a place from which one cannot keep

2b2) fall from a position

2b3) to fall powerless, to fall to the ground, be without effect

2b3a) of the divine promise of salvation

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1537 and G4098

Citing in TDNT: 6:167, 846




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Mark 13:25: "stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that"
Acts 12:7: "saying, Arise up quickly. And"
Acts 12:7: "saying, Arise up quickly. And"
Acts 27:17: "and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, struck sail,"
Acts 27:26: "Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island."
Acts 27:29: "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast"
Acts 27:32: "and let her fall off."
Romans 9:6: "as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not"
1 Corinthians 13:8: "Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether"
Galatians 5:4: "of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."
James 1:11: "the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the"
1 Peter 1:24: "the flower thereof falleth away:"
2 Peter 3:17: "error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness."
Revelation 2:5: "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do"









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