From epi and ballo; to throw upon (literal or figurative, transitive or reflexive; usually with more or less force); specially (with heautou implied) to reflect; impersonally, to belong to -- beat into, cast (up-)on, fall, lay (on), put (unto), stretch forth, think on.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK ballo

see GREEK heautou

1. Transitively,

a. to cast upon: τίνι βρόχον, 1 Corinthians 7:35; τίνι τά ἱμάτια, Mark 11:7; (χοῦν ἐπί τάς κεφαλάς, Revelation 18:19, WH marginal reading); to lay upon, ἐπί τινα τήν χεῖρα or τάς χεῖρας, used of seizing one to lead him off as a prisoner: Matthew 26:50; Mark 14:46 R G L; Luke 20:19; Luke 21:12; John 7:30 (L marginal reading ἔβαλεν), 44 (L Tr WH the simple βάλλειν); Acts 5:18; Acts 21:27 (for the Hebrew פ אֶל יָד שָׁלַח ..., Genesis 22:12); also τάς χεῖρας τίνι, Mark 14:46 T Tr WH; Acts 4:3 (Polybius 3, 2, 8; 5, 5; Lucian, Tim. 4); ἐπιβάλλειν τάς χεῖρας followed by the infinitive indicating the purpose, Acts 12:1; τήν χεῖρα ἐπ' ἄροτρον, to put the hand to the plow (to begin work), Luke 9:62.

b. to put (i. e. sew) on: ἐπίβλημα ἐπί ἱμάτιον, Luke 5:36; ἐπί ἱματίῳ, Matthew 9:16.

2. Intransitive, (as in Greek writings from Homer down (cf. Winers Grammar, 251 (236); Buttmann, 144f (126f)) to throw oneself upon, rush upon: εἰς τό πλοῖον, of waves rushing into a ship, Mark 4:37; to put one's mind upon a thing, attend to, with the dative of the thing: τούτῳ γάρ ἐπιβαλλων for if you think thereon, Antoninus 10, 30; μηδενί γάρ ἐπιβάλλειν μηδετεραν (i. e. τήν αἴσθησιν καί τήν νοησιν) χωρίς τοῦ προσπιπτοντος εἰδώλου, Plutarch, plac. phil. 4, 8; absolutely, ἐπιβαλών, SC. τῷ ῤήματι τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, when he had considered the utterance of Jesus, Mark 14:72; cf. Kypke (Wetstein (1752), McClellan) at the passage; Buttmann, 145 (127); (and for the different interpretations see Meyer and especially Morison at the passage).

3. Impersonally, ἐπιβάλλει μοι it belongs to me, falls to my share: τό ἐπιβάλλον (namely, μοι) μέρος τῆς οὐσίας, Luke 15:12 (κτημάτων τό ἐπιβάλλον, Herodotus 4, 115; τό ἐπιβάλλον αὐτοῖς μέρος, Diodorus 14, 17, and the like often in other writings (see Meyer; σοι ἐπιβάλλει ἡ κληρονομία, Tobit 6:12 (cf. Tobit 3:17; 1 Macc. 10:30, etc.))).