1. fall into, fall among — To fall into a place, situation, or condition, always with the preposition eis or a dative implying entry into an undesirable state. All NT occurrences share this single core meaning -- the six auto-split clusters are purely inflectional variants (aorist subjunctive empese, aorist participle empesontos, future indicative empesountai, aorist infinitive empesein, present indicative empiptousin). In Matt 12:11, a sheep 'falls' (empese) into a pit on the Sabbath. In Luke 6:39, the blind leading the blind 'will both fall' (empesountai) into a ditch. The Good Samaritan parable features a man who 'fell among' (empesontos) robbers (Luke 10:36). In 1 Tim 3:6-7, the overseer must not fall into the devil's condemnation or snare (empese). Those who desire to be rich 'fall into' (empiptousin) temptation and a trap (1 Tim 6:9). Heb 10:31 warns it is fearful 'to fall into' (empesein) the hands of the living God. Hebrew glosses uniformly use yippol/lippol (qal of naphal 'fall'); Arabic yasqutu/suqut; Hindi girna/gire; Korean ppajida/tteoreojida; Spanish caer/caera/cayere. 7×
AR["السُّقُوط","السّاقِطِ","سَقَطَ","يَسقُطانِ","يَسْقُطونَ","يَسْقُطَ"]·ben["পড়বে","পড়া","পড়ে","পড়ে-থাকা-একজনের","সে-পড়ে","সে-পড়ে,"]·DE["hineinfallen","ἐμπέσῃ","ἐμπεσοῦνται","ἐμπεσόντος"]·EN["fall","falls","having-fallen","he-fall","to-fall","will-fall"]·FR["tomber-dans"]·heb["הַנֹּפֵל","יִפְּלוּ","יִפֹּל","לִפֹּל","נוֹפְלִים"]·HI["गिरते-हैन","गिरना","गिरे","गिरेंगे","पड़े-हुए"]·ID["akan-jatuh","jatuh","yang-jatuh"]·IT["empese","empesein","empesontos","empesountai","empesē","empiptousin"]·jav["badhe-dhawah","dhawah","tiba","tiba,"]·KO["당한-자의","떨어지기가","빠지겠느냐","빠지기를","빠지기를,","빠지면","빠진다"]·PT["caem","caia","cair"]·RU["впадают","впал","впасть","попавшему","упадут","упадёт"]·ES["caen","caer","caerán","caiga","cayere","que-cayó"]·SW["aanguke","aliyeangukia","ataanguka","kuanguka","wanaanguka","wataanguka"]·TR["düşecekler?","düşenin","düşerler","düşerse","düşmek","düşsün"]·urd["گر-جائے","گرتے-ہیں","گرنا","گرنے-والے","گرے"]
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ἐμπίπτω, future -πεσοῦμαι: aorist ἐνέπεσον, Epic dialect ἔμπεσον (see. below): Lyric poetry aorist ἔμπετες Refs 5th c.BC+:—fall in or on, with dative, τρύφος ἔμπεσε πόντῳ Refs 8th c.BC+; πῦρ ἔμπεσε νηυσίν fire fell upon them,Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐμπέσοι γέ σοι (i.e. ὁ πύργος) Refs 5th c.BC+ __b Geometry texts, meet, of a line meeting another, Refs 3rd c.BC+; to be placed, ἐὰν εἰς τὸν κύκλον εὐθεῖα…