Word study
Jump
1 Hebrew and 5 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: jumped, jump. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “jump” or one of its forms.
Compare the Greek words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- קוּם qûmarise, standtranslated this way 1 time of its 34 uses · Strong’s H6966Verb · Translated: set 10, stood 3, appointed 2, arise 2Full study and all 30 verses →
Daniel 3:24 Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?” “Certainly, O king,” they replied.
Greek words (New Testament)
- εἰσπηδάω eispēdáōI leap into, rush intotranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G1530Verb · Translated: rushed 2, jumped 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Mark 10:50 Throwing off his cloak, Bartimaeus jumped up and came to Jesus.
- βάλλω bállōI cast, throw, rush, put, place, droptranslated this way 1 time of its 120 uses · Strong’s G906Verb · Translated: thrown 26, put 16, throw 11, cast 10Full study and all 106 verses →
John 21:7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it . . .) and jumped into the sea.
- ἅλλομαι hállomaiI leap, bubble uptranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G242Verb · Translated: springing 1, leaping 1, jumped 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Acts 14:10 In a loud voice Paul called out, “Stand up on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk.
- ἐφάλλομαι ephállomaiI leap upontranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G2177Verb · Translated: jumped 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Acts 19:16 Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.
- ἀποῤῥίπτω aporrhíptōI throw away from, throw overboardtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G641Verb · Translated: jump overboard 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Acts 27:43 But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life , thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.