ἐμπίπτω
to fall into
‘to fall into’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G1706 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εμπιπτω (empíptō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to fall into.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 12:11. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 1 Timothy, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1706 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 43%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 29%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 14%
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: Fall 3×, He fall 2×
- American Standard Version: Fall 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fall 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fall 5×, He may 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1706 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1706 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G1706 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1706 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- to fall among robbers
- fall into one's power
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1706 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐμπέσῃ empésē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:11 | 3 |
| ἐμπίπτουσιν empíptousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Timothy 6:9 | 1 |
| ἐμπεσεῖν empeseîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Hebrews 10:31 | 1 |
| ἐμπεσοῦνται empesoûntai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 6:39 | 1 |
| ἐμπεσόντος empesóntos | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 10:36 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1706, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εμπιπτω appears 30 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 14 books.
- 30
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 14:10 ἐνπίπτω
- Exodus 21:33 ἐνπίπτω
- Judges 15:18 ἐνπίπτω
- 1 Samuel 29:3 ἐνπίπτω
- 2 Samuel 24:14 ἐνπίπτω
- 2 Kings 7:4 ἐνπίπτω
- 1 Chronicles 21:13 ἐνπίπτω
- Psalms 7:16 ἐνπίπτω
- Proverbs 12:13 ἐνπίπτω
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 ἐνπίπτω
- Isaiah 10:4 ἐνπίπτω
- Jeremiah 31:44 ἐνπίπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1706) 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.
- Genesis 14:10 ἐνπίπτω Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
- Exodus 21:33 ἐνπίπτω "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- Judges 15:18 ἐνπίπτω He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
- Judges 18:1 ἐνπίπτω In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 29:3 ἐνπίπτω Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [to me] to this day?
- 2 Samuel 24:14 ἐνπίπτω David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- 2 Kings 7:4 ἐνπίπτω If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
- 2 Kings 25:11 ἐνπίπτω The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
- 1 Chronicles 21:13 ἐνπίπτω David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
- Psalms 7:16 ἐνπίπτω The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Psalms 56:7 ἐνπίπτω Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
- Proverbs 12:13 ἐνπίπτω An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, But the righteous shall come out of trouble.
- Proverbs 17:12 ἐνπίπτω Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.
- Proverbs 17:16 ἐνπίπτω Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he has no understanding?
- Proverbs 17:20 ἐνπίπτω One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
- Proverbs 22:14 ἐνπίπτω The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
- Proverbs 26:27 ἐνπίπτω Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
- Proverbs 28:10 ἐνπίπτω Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He will fall into his own trap; But the blameless will inherit good.
- Proverbs 28:14 ἐνπίπτω Blessed is the man who always fears; But one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 ἐνπίπτω He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Isaiah 10:4 ἐνπίπτω They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 24:18 ἐνπίπτω It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
- Isaiah 47:11 ἐνπίπτω Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.
- Jeremiah 31:44 ἐνπίπτω
- Daniel 2:1 ἐνπίπτω In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
- Daniel 7:2 ἐνπίπτω Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
- Amos 5:19 ἐνπίπτω As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1706) 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.
