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ἐκπίπτω

to fall away

‘to fall away’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1601 Strong's Greek
ekpíptō Transliteration
/ek-pip'-to/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 10 appearances

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About this entry

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“to fall away” is the headline sense of the Greek verb εκπιπτω (ekpíptō). It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 10 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Acts 12:7, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
be cast
Modern gloss
to fall away
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1601 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

10
distinct verses
The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 12:7
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 12:7.
2 Peter 3:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Peter 3:17.
#1,056
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 5 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 20%
  • General Epistles 3 · 30%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 50%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 30%
  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 20%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Be cast 1×, Faileth 1×, Fall 1×
  • American Standard Version: Falleth 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Adrift 1×, Fall 1×, Fall from 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fell off 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1601 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Be cast” 1×
  • “Faileth” 1×
  • “Fall” 1×
  • “Fall from” 1×
  • “Fall off” 1×
  • “Falleth” 1×
  • “Falleth away” 1×
  • “Fell off” 1×
  • “Hath taken none effect” 1×
  • “They should fall” 1×
  • “Thou art fallen” 1×
  • “We should have fallen” 1×

Plus other, less common renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1601 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Falleth” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1601 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Adrift” 1×
  • “Fall” 1×
  • “Fall from” 1×
  • “Falls” 1×
  • “Fell” 1×
  • “Has failed” 1×
  • “Run aground” 1×
  • “They would run aground” 1×
  • “We would run aground” 1×
  • “You have fallen away” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1601 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Fell off” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to fall out of, to fall down from, to fall off
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 08:47,8

From G1537 and G4098 ; to drop away ; specifically be driven out of one´ s course; figuratively to lose become inefficient : - be cast fail fall (away off) take none effect.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G1601 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐκπεσεῖν ekpeseîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 27:26 2
ἐξέπεσεν exépesen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular James 1:11 2
ἐκπέπτωκεν ekpéptōken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 9:6 1
ἐκπέσητε ekpésēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 2 Peter 3:17 1
ἐκπέσωμεν ekpésōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Acts 27:29 1
ἐκπέσωσιν ekpésōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Acts 27:17 1
ἐξέπεσαν exépesan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 12:7 1
ἐξεπέσατε exepésate Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Galatians 5:4 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εκπιπτω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 7 books.

14
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
14
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
7 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1601) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1601) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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