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Lexicon :: Strong's G4430 - ptōma

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πτῶμα
Transliteration
ptōma (Key)
Pronunciation
pto'-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the alternate of πίπτω (G4098)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:166,846

Strong’s Definitions

πτῶμα ptōma, pto'-mah; from the alternate of G4098; a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion):—dead body, carcase, corpse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G4430 in the following manner: dead body (3x), carcase (1x), corpse (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G4430 in the following manner: dead body (3x), carcase (1x), corpse (1x).

  1. a fall, downfall

    1. metaph. a failure, defeat, calamity

    2. an error, lapse into sin

  2. that which has fallen

    1. the fallen body of one dead or slain, a corpse, a carcase

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πτῶμα ptōma, pto'-mah; from the alternate of G4098; a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion):—dead body, carcase, corpse.
STRONGS G4430:
πτῶμα, πτώματος, τό (πίπτω, perfect πέπτωκα);
1. in Greek writings from Aeschylus down, a fall, downfall; metaphorically, a failure, defeat, calamity; an error lapse, sin.
2. that which is fallen; hence, with the genitive of a person or with νεκροῦ added, the (fallen) body of one dead or slain, a corpse, carcase; later also with νεκροῦ omitted (Polybius, the Sept., Philo, Joseph, Plutarch, Herodian), cf. Thomas Magister, p. 765 (edited by Ritschl, p. 290, 14); Phryn. ed. Lob., p. 375; (Winer's Grammar, 23), and so in the N. T.: Matthew 14:12 L T Tr WH; Mark 15:45 L T Tr WH; Matthew 24:28; τίνος, Mark 6:29; Revelation 11:8, 9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
14:12; 24:28
Mark
6:29; 15:45
Revelation
11:8; 11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4430 matches the Greek πτῶμα (ptōma),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12 - His strength is famished,
and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - that the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me,
or exulted when evil overtook him

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17 - that he may turn man aside from his deed
and conceal pride from a man;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16 - Do you know the balancings[fn] of the clouds,
the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 110:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6 - He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs[fn]
over the wide earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - therefore this iniquity shall be to you
like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things have happened to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will comfort you?[fn]
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