ἔδαφος, ἐδαφεος (ἐδάφους), τό, bottom, base, ground: πίπτειν εἰς τό ἔδαφος, Act_22:7. (the Sept.; in classical writings from Homer down.)

ἔδαφος edaphos 1x pr. a bottom, base; hence, the ground, Act_22:7

ἔδαφος , -εος (-ους ), τό , [in LXX for H6083 , H7172 , etc.;] bottom, pavement, ground: Act_22:7 .†

ἔδαφος [page 180] Ostr 1262 (Ptol.) ἔχω παρὰ σοῦ τὸ ἐκφόριον καὶ τὸ ἐμβαδικὸν τοῦ ἐδάφους μου ἀμπελῶνος , and similarly P Grenf I. 21 .8 (B.C. 126) ἔδα (φος ) ἀμπελῶ (νος ), P Lond 401 .11 (B.C. 116 11) (= II. p. 14) ἀπὸ ἐδάφους ἀμπελῶνος . For the plur. = lands, see P Tebt II. 302 .10 (A.D. 71 2) where certain priests petition against an increase of rent τοῖς προκιμέν ]ο̣[ι ]ς ἐδάφεσι ἡμῶν , on our aforesaid lands, and P Oxy XII. 1409 .19 (A.D. 278) πρὸς ἀρδείαν τῶν ἐδαφῶν , for the irrigation of the fields. The derived sense of buildings appears in P Oxy II. 286 .22 (A.D. 82) σειτικῶν ἐδαφῶν καὶ ἑτέρων , granaries and other possessions. In Michel 594 .57 (B.C. 279) τὸ ἔδαφος ὁμαλίσασι the reference is to levelling the floor, and in the late Preisigke 5114 .9 (A.D. 613 40) a house is purchased ἀπὸ ἐδάφο (υ ) ἄχρι ἀέρος . Note the gen. in -ου : Boisacq, p. 215, points out that ἐ . was originally a masc. stem in -ο - which became a neut. in -ε (ς ) through the influence of ἕδος .

ἔδαφος [Etym: prob. from same Root as ὀδός, οὖδας] "the bottom, foundation, base" of anything, Thuc. ; ἔδαφος νηός "the bottom, hold" of a ship, Od. ; ἔδ. ποταμοῦ Xen. "the ground-floor, pavement", οἴκου Hdt. ; καθαιρεῖν εἰς τὸ ἔδαφος to rase to the "ground", Thuc. "ground, soil, land", Aeschin. , Dem.

ἔδαφος, -εος (-ους), τό, [in LXX for עָפָר, קַרְקע, etc. ;] bottom, pavement, ground: Act.22:7.† (AS)