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Lexicon :: Strong's G4430 - ptōma

Aa
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 - And after a while 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 BoxJob 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 -
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:14 -
He breaketh me with breach upon breach;
He runneth upon me like a giant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12 -
His strength shall be hunger-bitten,
And calamity shall be ready at his side.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 -
That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 -
If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
Or lifted up myself when evil found him

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17 -
That he may withdraw man from his purpose,
And hide pride from man;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16 -
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds,
The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6 -
He will judge among the nations,
He will fill the places with dead bodies;
He will strike through the head in many countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:18

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - And he shall break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:19 - These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?
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