Strong's Greek: 2000. ἐπισφαλής (episphalés) -- prone to fall

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episphalés: prone to fall

Original Word: ἐπισφαλής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: episphalés
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-sfal-ace')
Short Definition: dangerous, likely to fall
Definition: dangerous, likely to fall.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from epi and sphalló (to cause to fall)
Definition
prone to fall
NASB Translation
dangerous (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 2000: ἐπισφαλής

ἐπισφαλής, ἐπιφαλες (σφάλλω to cause to fall), prone to fall: πλοῦς, a dangerous voyage, Acts 27:9. (Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, others.)

Strong's

dangerous.

From a compound of epi and sphallo (to trip); figuratively, insecure -- dangerous.

see GREEK epi