ἐπέρχομαι

ἐπέρχομαι — epérchomai

ἐπέρχομαι; future ἐπελεύσομαι; 2 aorist ἐπῆλθον (3 person plural Ἐπῆλθαν, Act 14:19 L T Tr WH); the Sept. chiefly for בּוא;

1. to come to, to arrive;

a. universally, followed by ἀπό with a genitive of place, Act 14:19.

b. of time; to come on, be at hand, be future: ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσι τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις, Eph 2:7 (Isa 41:4; Isa 41:22-23; in Greek writings from Homer down); of that which time will bring, to impend: ἡ ταλαιπωρία ἡ ἐπερχομενη, Jas 5:1 : τίνι, Luk 21:26 (Isa 63:4; also of things favorable, ἡ εὐλογία, Sir 3:8).

2. to come upon, overtake, one; so even in Homer, as of sleep, τινα, Odyssey 4, 793; 10, 31; τίνι, 12, 311: of disease, 11, 200: ἐπί τινα, a. of calamities: Luk 21:35 R G; Act 8:24; Act 13:40 (L T Tr text WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets ἐφ' ὑμᾶς) (Gen 42:21; Mic 3:11; Zep 2:2; 2Ch 20:9; Jer 5:12 (here ἥξει)).

b. of the Holy Spirit, descending and operating in one: Luk 1:35; Act 1:8.

c. of an enemy attacking one: ἐπελθών νικήσῃ αὐτόν, Luk 11:22; (Homer, Iliad 12, 136; 1Sa 30:23; with the dative of person Herodian, 1, 8, 12 (6 Bekker)).