To collapse
πίπτωStrong’s G4098piptō
Appears in 85 verses of the New Testament
In short
Piptō is the Greek word usually translated “fell”, “having fallen” and “having fallen down”. It appears in 85 verses of the New Testament.
“And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.”
Meaning
Usually translated “fell”, “having fallen” and “having fallen down”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- fell 23
- having fallen 13
- having fallen down 4
- will fall 4
- falling 4
- it fell 3
- he fell 3
- falls 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 20
- Matthew 18
- Luke 16
- Acts 9
- Mark 8
- 1 Corinthians 4
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 4:9And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
- Matthew 7:25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Matthew 13:4And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
- Matthew 13:5Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
All 85 verses, by book
- James 1
- 5:12
Greek dictionary
πίπτω piptō · to collapse
πίπτω [in LXX chiefly for נָפַל ;] to fall; 1. of descent, to fall, fall down or from: before ἐπί, with accusative loc., Mat.10:29, al.; εἰς, Mat.15:14, al.; ἐς μέσῳ, with genitive, Luk.8:7; παρὰ τ. ὁδόν, Mat.13:4, Mrk.4:4, Luk.8:5; before ἀπό, Mat.15:27, al.; ἐκ, Mrk.13:25, Luk.10:18, Rev.8:10 9:1. Metaphorical: ὁ ἥλιος, before ἐπί, Rev.7:16; ἀχλὺς κ. σκότος, Act.13:11; ὁ κλῆρος, Act.1:26; ὑπὸ κρίσιν, Jas.5:12. 2. Of prostration, …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “collapse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLLAPSE, verb intransitive
To fall together, as the two sides of a vessel; to close by falling together; as, the fine canals or vessels of the body collapse in old age.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.