episfalos

Strong’sG2000

dangerous, likely to fall

stem episfal-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἐπισφαλής, -ές

(< σφάλλω, to cause to fall), [in LXX: Wi 9:14 (cf. -ῶς, ib. 4:4) *;]

1. prone to fall (Plat.).

2. dangerous (Hipp., Plut., al.): Ac 27:9.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2000 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-ee-sfal-ace'

figuratively, insecure

Fromfrom a compound of G1909 and σφάλλω (to trip);

King Jamesdangerous.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐπισφαλ-ής, ές,
(σφάλλομαι) prone to fall, unstable, precarious, τὰ μεγάλα πάντα ἐπισφαλῆ Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπισφαλές [ἐστι] Refs 4th c.BC+
II (σφάλλω) making to fall, misleading, εἰς βλάβην Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 dangerous, νόσημα Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -εστάτη, χώρα Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐπισφαλές [ἐστι] παρακοῦσαι Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb -λῶς, ἔχειν, διακεῖσθαι, to be in danger, LXX+2nd c.BC+: superlative -έστατα, περᾶσαι Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 dubious, adverb comparative -έστερον AristeasRefs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

dangerous1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	episfalos	episfalas	episfalem	episfalois	episfalais	episfaleim
object accusative	episfalon	episfalan		episfaloin	episfalain
direct address vocative	episfalor	episfalar		episfaloir	episfalair
of, belonging to genitive	episfalou1×ἐπισφαλοῦς	episfalau	episfaleu	episfaloiu	episfalaiu	episfaleiu
to, for dative	episfalo	episfala	episfale	episfaloi	episfalai	episfalei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

episfalstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

episfal is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

episfalou“dangerous”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 27:9… de chronou diagenerantou kai arōntou ēdē episfalou tou plouou dia tem kai tan …… and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast …