Greek verb · G4363
προσπίπτω
prospiptopros-pip'-to
to fall upon, strike against; to fall down at one's feet, fall prostrate before
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prospíptō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4363is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4363
to fall towards, i.e. (gently) prostrate oneself (in supplication or homage), or (violently) to rush upon (in storm)
The King James renders it: beat upon, fall (down) at (before).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
prospipto is rendered "to fall upon, strike against; to fall down at one's feet, fall prostrate before". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to fall upon, strike against".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
Matthew 7:25προσέπεσαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to fall upon, strike against, and to fall down at one's feet, fall prostrate before.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to fall upon, strike againstwith dative, of wind, Mat.7:25. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 7:25The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house… |
| to fall down at one's feet, fall prostrate beforeabsol., before πρός, Mrk.7:25; with dative of person(s), Mrk.3:11 5:33, Luk.8:28, Act.16:29; τ. γόνασιν, Luk.5:8.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMark 3:11And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προσέρχομαι | proserchomai | to come near/agree | Uses86 |
| προσεύχομαι | proseuchomai | to pray | Uses85 |
| πρόσωπον | prosopon | face | Uses75 |
| προσκυνέω | proskyneo | to worship | Uses60 |
| προσφέρω | prosphero | to bring to | Uses47 |
| προσευχή | proseuche | prayer | Uses35 |
| προσκαλέομαι | proskaleomai | to call to/summon | Uses28 |
| προσέχω | prosecho | to watch out | Uses24 |
| προστίθημι | prostithemi | to add (to) | Uses18 |
| προσδοκάω | prosdokao | to look for | Uses16 |
| προσδέχομαι | prosdechomai | to wait for/welcome | Uses14 |
| προσλαμβάνω | proslambano | to take | Uses12 |
and 56 more on the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- προσέπεσεν5
- προσέπεσαν1
- προσέπιπτον1
- προσπεσοῦσα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular5V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-2AAP-NSF
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
Matthew
one use
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- προσέπεσανprosepesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: beat
Mark
three uses
And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”
- προσέπιπτονprosepiptonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were falling down
Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him trembling in fear, and she told Him the whole truth.
- προσέπεσενprosepesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she fell down
Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.
- προσέπεσενprosepesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she fell
Luke
three uses
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
- προσέπεσενprosepesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: fell at
When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”
- προσέπεσενprosepesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he fell down before
Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.
- προσπεσοῦσαprospesousaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having fallen down
Acts
one use
Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
- προσέπεσενprosepesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he fell down before
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.