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To fall/beat

προσπίπτωStrong’s G4363

prospiptō

Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament

In short

Prospiptō is the Greek word usually translated “fell down before”, “beat” and “were falling down”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.

“And 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 7:25 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “fell down before”, “beat” and “were falling down”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • he fell down before 2
  • beat 1
  • they were falling down 1
  • she fell down 1
  • she fell 1
  • fell at 1
  • having fallen down 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 3
  • Luke 3
  • Matthew 1
  • Acts 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 8 verses, by book
Matthew 1
7:25
Acts 1
16:29
Greek dictionary

προσπίπτω prospiptō · to fall/beat

προσ-πίπτω [in LXX for נָפַל, נָגַע hi., כָּרַע ;] 1. to fall upon, strike against: with dative, of wind, Mat.7:25. 2. to fall down at one's feet, fall prostrate before: absol., 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)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “beat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BEAT, verb transitive

preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]

  1. To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45Deuteronomy 25:3
  2. To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
  3. To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
  4. To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3
All definitions and other forms of “beat”
  1. To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
  2. To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
  3. To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
  4. To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
  5. To tread, as a path.
  6. To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
  7. To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.

BEAT, verb intransitive

To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.

  1. To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
  2. To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
  3. To fluctuate; to be in agitation.

BEAT, noun

A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.

  1. A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
  2. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
  3. A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

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.