The corpus record

εἰσπηδάω

eispedao

leap in, burst in, rush in

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Where it lives

Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

εἰσπηδάω · eispēdaō — LSJ

leap in

leap in, ἐς τὰς λίμνας Hdt. 4.132; εἰς τὸν πηλόν X. An. 1.5.8.

2 burst in, rush in

burst in, εἰσπηδήσας πρός με νύκτωρ Μειδίας Test. ap. D. 21.22; εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν ib. 78, cf. PHal. 1.169 (iii B.C.); εἰς τὰ συνέδρια Hell.Oxy. 10.2: abs., rush in, Men. Sam. 219, Act.Ap. 16.29.

In the wild

εἰσπηδήσαντος · eispēdēsantos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3149)
ἐσπηδήσητε · espēdēsēte Herodotus, Histories 4.132.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4891)
εἰσεπήδησεν · eisepēdēsen New Testament, Acts 16.29 (DIORISIS sentence 571)
εἰσπηδήσῃ · eispēdēsēi Septuaginta, Amos 5
εἰσπηδήσαντες · eispēdēsantes Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.8 (DIORISIS sentence 315)

Where it came from

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