Quick Definition
ἐφάλλομαι v. I leap upon
Strong's Definition
from 1909 and 242; to spring upon
KJV Usage: leap on
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ἐφαλόμην | ἅλλομαι
15.239 · Linear Movement · Jump, Leap
to jump on, to leap upon to leap or jump onto a place or object
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐφ-άλλομαι ; 2 aor. ptep. ἐφαλόμενος L T'Tr WH; (ἐπί and ἅλλομαι, q. v-); fr. Hom. down; to leap upon, spring upon: ἐπί twa, Acts xix. 16 [here RG pres. ptep.]; (CUSp τ δ᾽ See δ. Sanh TE) ie
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐφάλλομαι ephallomai 1x
to leap or spring upon, assault, Acts 19:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐφάλλομαι
[in LXX for צָלַח, I Ki 10:6 11:6 16:13 * ;]
to leap upon: seq. ἐπί c. acc pers. Ac 19:16.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐφάλλομαι. [...., νὴ 8022 (iii/B.c.) ἐδόκει . . .. [τ]ὸν θεὸν ἐφαλέσθαι ἐπὶ τἂν χῆρα, with reference to the healing of a powerless hand in the Asclepieum of Epidaurus. > ’ fe EMATAS occurs in the late P Lond 48388 (a.p. 616) (=II. p. 328). A new form ἀφάπαξ is found in P Flor 11. 158? (iii/A..) in a context which suggests the meaning ‘‘at one time” or ‘all at once "—éréoretka δὲ καὶ εἰς Ταυρείνου ἵνα κἀκεῖνο ἔλθῃ τὸ ταυρικὸν καὶ ἀφάπαξ τὰ ἐ[ύ]λα παρενέχθη εἰς ™....: but note that Vitelli (Berzchtigungsliste 1. p- 150) now describes ἀφάπαξ as an error in writing for ἐφ᾽ ἅπαξ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐφάλλομαι (ephallomai) — to jump on. ἐφάλλομαι, future - αλοῦμαι [LXX]aorist 2 ἐπᾶλτο, participle ἐπάλμενος, ἐπιάλμενος (see. below): regular aorist 2 infinitive -αλέσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—spring upon, so as to attack, with dative, Ἀστεροπαίῳ ἐπᾶλτο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπάλμενος ὀξέϊ δουρί[Refs 8th c.BC+] having leaped upon the chariot, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of fame, ἐς Αἰθίοπας ἐπᾶλτο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τὰν χῆρα [NT+1st c.AD+]; ζῴῳ, in hostile sense, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; εἰς τοὐπίσω ἐ., of an exercise, [LXX+2nd c.AD+]