ἐπάγω

ἐπάγω — epágō

ἐπάγω (present participle ἐπάγων); 1 aorist participle ἐπάξας (Winers Grammar, p. 82 (78); (Veitch, under the word ἄγω)); 2 aorist infinitive ἐπαγαγεῖν; from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for הֵבִיא; to lead or bring upon: τίνι τί, to bring a thing on one, i. e. to cause something to befall one, usually something evil, 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:5 (πῆμα, Hesiod, Works, 240; ἀταν, Sophocles Ajax 1189; γῆρας νόσους ἐπάγει, Plato, Tim. 33 a.; ἑαυτοῖς δουλείαν, Demosthenes, p. 424, 9; δεῖνα, Palaeph. 6, 7; κακά, Bar 4:29; ἀμέτρητον ὕδωρ, 3Ma 2:4, and in other examples; in the Sept. ἐπί τινα τί, as κακά, Jer 6:19; Jer 11:11, etc.; πληγήν, Exo 11:1; also in a good sense, as ἀγαθά, Jeremiah 39:42; τίνι εὐφροσύνην, Bar 4:29). ἐπάγειν τό αἷμα τίνος ἐπί τινα, to bring the blood of one upon anyone, i. e. lay upon one the guilt of, make him answerable for, the violent death inflicted on another: Act 5:28 (like ἐπάγειν ἁμαρτίαν ἐπί τινα, Gen 20:9; Exo 32:21; Exo 32:34; ἁμαρτίας πατέρων ἐπί τέκνα, Exo 34:7).