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11.
(
# 1
, 1911), “to cast upon” ( , “on,”
, “to throw”), also
signifies to “fall” to one’s share, Luke 15:12, “that falleth.” The phrase is frequently
found in the papyri documents as a technical formula. See
CAST
, A, No. 7.
12.
(
+$
, 2064), “to come,” is translated “have fallen out,” in Phil.
1:12, of the issue of circumstances. See
COME
.
13.
(
&
, 1096), “to become,” is translated “falling” (headlong) in Acts
1:18. See
Note
(1) below. See
BECOME
.
14.
(
&
, 868), when used intransitively, signifies “to stand off” ( ,
“from,”
, “to stand”), “to withdraw from”; hence, “to fall away, to apostatize,” 1
Tim. 4:1,
RV
, “shall fall away,” for
KJV
, “shall depart”; Heb. 3:12,
RV
, “falling away.”
See
DEPART
, No. 20.
15.
(
$ &
, 3845), “to transgress, fall” (
, “away, across,”
,
“to go”), is translated “fell away” in Acts 1:25,
RV
, for
KJV
, “by transgression fell.” See
TRANSGRESS
.
16.
(
&
, 2597) denotes “to come (or fall) down,” Luke 22:44; in
Rev. 16:21, “cometh down,”
RV
. See
COME
,
DESCEND
.
Notes:
(1) In Rev. 16:2,
, “to become,” is translated “it became,”
RV
, for
KJV
,
“there fell.” (2) In 2 Pet. 1:10,
, “to stumble,” is translated “stumble,”
RV
, for
KJV
,
“fall.” (3) In Rom. 14:13,
, “a snare, a means of doing wrong,” is rendered “an
occasion of falling,”
RV
, for
KJV
“an occasion to fall.” (4)
, in the middle voice,
signifies “to fall asleep,” Matt. 27:52,
RV
, “had fallen asleep,” for
KJV
, “slept.” See
ASLEEP
. (5) In Acts 27:34,
$
, “to perish,” is translated “shall … perish,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “shall … fall.” (6) In Jude 24 the adjective
, “without stumbling, sure
footed” ( , negative, and
, “to stumble”), is translated “from stumbling,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “from falling.” (7) In Acts 1:18 the phrase
, headlong, with the aorist
participle of
, “to become,” “falling headlong.” lit., “having become headlong,” is
used of the suicide of Judas Iscariot. Some would render the word (it is a medical term)
“swollen,” (as connected with a form of the verb
, “to burn”), indicating the
condition of the body of certain suicides. (8) In Acts 20:9,
KJV
,
, “to bear
down,” is translated “being fallen into” (
RV
, “borne down”), and then “he sunk down”
(
RV
, ditto), the first of gradual oppression, the second (the aorist tense) of momentary
effect. (9) In Acts 19:35
, from
, “heaven,”
, “to fall,” i.e., “fallen” from
the sky, is rendered “image which fell down from Jupiter” (
RV
marg., “heaven”).
FALSE, FALSEHOOD, FALSELY
A. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
)
, 5571), is used of “false witnesses,” Acts 6:13; “false apostles,”
Rev. 2:2,
RV
, “false,”
KJV
, “liars”; Rev. 21:8, “liars.”¶