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Lexicon :: Strong's G4431 - ptōsis

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πτῶσις
Transliteration
ptōsis (Key)
Pronunciation
pto'-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the alternate of πίπτω (G4098)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:167,846

Strong’s Definitions

πτῶσις ptōsis, pto'-sis; from the alternate of G4098; a crash, i.e. downfall (literally or figuratively):—fall.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G4431 in the following manner: fall (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G4431 in the following manner: fall (2x).

  1. a falling, downfall

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πτῶσις ptōsis, pto'-sis; from the alternate of G4098; a crash, i.e. downfall (literally or figuratively):—fall.
STRONGS G4431:
πτῶσις, πτώσεως, ἡ (πίπτω, perfect πέπτωκα), a falling, downfall: properly, τῆς οἰκίας, Matthew 7:27 (πτωσεις οἴκων, Manetho, 4, 617); tropically, εἰς πτῶσιν πολλῶν (opposed to εἰς ἀνάστασιν), that many may fall and bring upon themselves ruin, i. e. the loss of salvation, utter misery, Luke 2:34, cf. Romans 11:11. (The Sept. chiefly for מַגֵּפָה, plague, defeat.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
7:27
Luke
2:34
Romans
11:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4431 matches the Greek πτῶσις (ptōsis),
which occurs 19 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - “Whenever you take a census of the people of Israel, each man who is counted must pay a ransom for himself to the LORD. Then no plague will strike the people as you count them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 - They angered the LORD with all these things,
so a plague broke out among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - This message came to me concerning Damascus:
“Look, the city of Damascus will disappear!
It will become a heap of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem!
You have drunk the cup of the LORD’s fury.
You have drunk the cup of terror,
tipping out its last drops.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD,
your God and Defender, says:
“See, I have taken the terrible cup from your hands.
You will drink no more of my fury.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Are they ashamed of their disgusting actions?
Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush!
Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered.
They will be brought down when I punish them,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:21 - The earth will shake with the noise of Edom’s fall,
and its cry of despair will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: The whole coastline will tremble at the sound of your fall, as the screams of the wounded echo in the continuing slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:18 - Now the coastlands tremble at your fall.
The islands are dismayed as you disappear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:27 - Everything is lost—
your riches and wares,
your sailors and pilots,
your ship builders, merchants, and warriors.
On the day of your ruin,
everyone on board sinks into the depths of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:13 - “The birds roost on its fallen trunk,
and the wild animals lie among its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of its fall, for I sent it down to the grave with all the others who descend to the pit. And all the other proud trees of Eden, the most beautiful and the best of Lebanon, the ones whose roots went deep into the water, took comfort to find it there with them in the depths of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - Yes, I will shock many lands, and their kings will be terrified at your fate. They will shudder in fear for their lives as I brandish my sword before them on the day of your fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 - See the flashing swords and glittering spears
as the charioteers charge past!
There are countless casualties,
heaps of bodies—
so many bodies that
people stumble over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:12 - And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:15 - This same plague will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in the enemy camps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the LORD will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go.
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