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|txtha=[[perfect]] ἐκπέπτωκα; 2nd aorist [[ἐξέπεσον]]; 1st aorist ἐξέπεσα (L T Tr WH; [[πίπτω]] and) [[ἀπέρχομαι]]); (from [[Homer]] [[down]]); to [[fall]] [[out]] of, to [[fall]] [[down]] from;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]]: αἱ ἁλύσεις ἐκ [[τῶν]] [[χειρῶν]] ([[see]] ἐκ, I:3 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 427 (398) and De [[verb]]. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 11)), ἐκ τῆς θήκης, ἐκ [[τοῦ]] οὐρανοῦ, R G; ἐκπίπτειν [[εἰς]] (i. e. from a [[straight]] [[course]]) to [[fall]] [[off]], i. e. be driven [[into]] (cf. Stallbaum on [[Plato]]'s Phileb., p. 106f; others [[supply]] 'from [[deep]] [[water]],' and [[render]] ἐκπίπτειν, to be [[cast]] [[away]]), L T Tr] WH [[have]] [[adopted]] ἐκπίπτειν [[κατά]]; ([[often]] in Greek writings, as [[εἰς]] γῆν, [[Euripides]], Hel. 409; [[εἰς]] [[τόν]] λιμένα, [[Thucydides]] 2,92).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[metaphorically]],<br /><b class="num">a.</b> τίνος (Winer s Grammar, 427 (398), and De [[verb]]. comp. etc. as [[above]]), to [[fall]] from a [[thing]], to [[lose]] it: τῆς [[χάριτος]], [[τοῦ]] ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ, τῆς [[πρός]] [[τόν]] δῆμον εὐνοίας, [[Plutarch]], Tib. Gracch. 21; βασιλείας, Josephus, Antiquities 7,9, 2; [[also]] [[with]] prepositions, ἐκ [[τῶν]] ἐοντων, [[Herodotus]] 3,14; [[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] ἐλπίδων, [[Thucydides]] 8,81); [[πόθεν]], ([[ἐκεῖθεν]], Aelian v. h. 4,7).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[absolutely]], to [[perish]]; to [[fail]] ([[properly]], to [[fall]] from a [[place]] [[which]] [[one]] cannot [[keep]], [[fall]] from its [[position]]): ἡ [[ἀγάπη]], R G; to [[fall]] [[powerless]], [[fall]] to the [[ground]], be [[without]] [[effect]]: of the [[divine]] [[promise]] of [[salvation]] by Christ, Romans 9:6.

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