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Verb peripiptō (to fall in the middle of) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Luke
| 10: 30 | Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell in the middle of (peripiptō) robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. |
Acts
| 27: 41 | But falling in the middle of (peripiptō) a reef, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.
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James
| 1: 2 | My brothers and sisters, whenever you fall in the middle of (peripiptō) trials, consider it nothing but joy, |
2 Samuel (LXX: 2 Kings))
| 1: 6 | And the young man that brought the tidings, said to him, I accidentally fell in the middle of (peripiptō) mount Gelbue; and, behold, Saul was leaning upon his spear, and, behold, the chariots and captains of horse pressed hard upon him. |
Daniel (LXX: Old Greek version)
| 2: 9 | unless you render to me the dream and disclose its meaning, you will fall in the middle of (peripiptō) death. For you have agreed to make lying words in my presence until the occasion changes. Now, therefore, if you state the vision, which I sav during the night, I shall know that you can also disclose its sense." |
Ruth (LXX)
| 2: 3 | And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and by chance she fell in the middle of (peripiptō) a portion of the land of Booz, of the kindred of Elimelech. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 11: 5 | Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness falls in the middle of (peripiptō) unrighteousness. |
2 Maccabees (LXX)
| 6: 13 | For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any longer time, but fall in the middle of (peripiptō) reckoning. |
| 9: 7 | Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having fallen in the middle of (peripiptō) a grievous fall, all the members of his body were much pained. |
| 9: 21 | As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will. Returning out of Persia, and having fallen in the middle of (peripiptō) a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all: |
| 10: 4 | When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might no longer fall in the middle of (peripiptō) such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations. |
4 Maccabees (LXX)
| 1: 24 | Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it falls in the middle of (peripiptō) oneself. |
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