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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 BoxJdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 - Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12 - Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - “If I have rejoiced at my enemy’s misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17 - to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16 - Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6 - He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:18

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can[fn] console you?
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