Lexical Summary eperchomai: to come to or upon Original Word: ἐπέρχομαιTransliteration: eperchomai Phonetic Spelling: (ep-er'-khom-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to come to or upon Meaning: to come to or upon Strong's Concordance come in, come upon. From epi and erchomai; to supervene, i.e. Arrive, occur, impend, attack, (figuratively) influence -- come (in, upon). see GREEK epi see GREEK erchomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1904: ἐπέρχομαιἐπέρχομαι; future ἐπελεύσομαι; 2 aorist ἐπῆλθον (3 person plural Ἐπῆλθαν, Acts 14:19 L T Tr WH); the Sept. chiefly for בּוא; 1. to come to, to arrive; a. universally, followed by ἀπό with a genitive of place, Acts 14:19. b. of time; to come on, be at hand, be future: ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσι τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις, Ephesians 2:7 (Isaiah 41:4, 22, 23; in Greek writings from Homer down); of that which time will bring, to impend: ἡ ταλαιπωρία ἡ ἐπερχομενη, James 5:1: τίνι, Luke 21:26 (Isaiah 63:4; also of things favorable, ἡ εὐλογία, Sir. 3:8). 2. to come upon, overtake, one; so even in Homer, as of sleep, τινα, Odyssey 4, 793; 10, 31; τίνι, 12, 311: of disease, 11, 200: ἐπί τινα, a. of calamities: Luke 21:35 R G; Acts 8:24; Acts 13:40 (L T Tr text WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets ἐφ' ὑμᾶς) (Genesis 42:21; Micah 3:11; Zephaniah 2:2; 2 Chronicles 20:9; Jeremiah 5:12 (here ἥξει)). b. of the Holy Spirit, descending and operating in one: Luke 1:35; Acts 1:8. c. of an enemy attacking one: ἐπελθών νικήσῃ αὐτόν, Luke 11:22; (Homer, Iliad 12, 136; 1 Samuel 30:23; with the dative of person Herodian, 1, 8, 12 (6 Bekker)). |
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