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Strong's #4430 - πτῶμα
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- a fall, downfall
- metaph. a failure, defeat, calamity
- an error, lapse into sin
- that which has fallen
- the fallen body of one dead or slain, a corpse, a carcase
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πτῶμα
πτῶμα, ατος, τό, ( πίπτω ) fall, πεσεῖν . . πτώματ' οὐκ ἀνασχετά A. Pr. 919; πίπτουσι . . πτώματ' αἰσχρά S. Ant. 1046; π. θανάσιμον πεσῇ E. El. 686; ἡ πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἔπεσε τοιοῦτον π . Pl. La. 181b . fall in wrestling, Call. Iamb. 1.274, AP 9.391 ( Diotim. ): metaph., booby-trap, π. φιλοσόφων ἀπαλαιστρότατον Phld. Rh. 1.8S.; lapse, blunder, Gal. 10.124.
2. metaph., misfortune, calamity, τά γ' ἐκ θεῶν πτώματα calamities sent by the gods, E. HF 1228 .
3. pl., injuries due to falls, bruises, Dsc. 1.128,3.1,5.117.
II fallen body, corpse, carcase, freq. with gen., πτῶμα Ἑλένης, Ἐτεοκλέους, E. Or. 1196, Ph. 1697, cf. LXX Jd. 14.8, D.H. 4.70, etc.; πτώματα νεκρῶν E. Ph. 1482 (anap.): without a gen., A. Supp. 662 (s. v.l., lyr.), Plb. 15.14.2, Sardis 7 No. 165, Plu. Alex. 33, etc.: collective in sg., SIG 700.17 ( Maced., ii B.C. ), Revelation 11:8, Polyaen. 6.18.1 .
2. of buildings, ruin, οἰκίας, κρηνῖδος, IG 11(2).161 A 120, 163 Ba 21 (Delos, iii B.C. ); ἐπὶ τοῦ π . on the ruins (of the wall), Plb. 16.31.8, cf. 5.4.9, 5.100.6, Aristid. Or. 25(43).27; breach in a city-wall, D.S. 16.8, al.: pl., ruins, IG 11(2).199 A 103 (Delos, iii B.C. ), Ph. Bel. 100.45, Plb. 21.28.2; π. οἴκων Phryn. 351; π. ἐλαιῶν fallen olive-trees or fruit, Lys. Fr. 203 S.; windfall fruit, of the φοῖνιξ, Dsc. 1.109.
III payment which falls due, PEleph. 11.4 ( iii B.C., pl.), PLond. 1.3.37 (ii B.C.) .
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.
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πτῶμα -τος , τό
(< πίπτω ),
[in LXX: Judges 14:8 (H4658), Job 16:15 (14) (H6556), Isaiah 51:19 (H7701), Judith 8:19, Wisdom of Solomon 4:18, al.;]
1. a fall, metaph., a misfortune, calamity (Trag., Plat., Polyb., al.; LXX).
2. That which has fallen;
(a) of buildings, a ruin (Polyb.);
(b) of living creatures, in cl. (poët. only) usually c. gen., νεκρῶν , etc., but also absol., as in late writers and NT, a fallen body, a carcase, corpse: Matthew 14:12; Matthew 24:28, Mark 15:45; Papyri αὐτοῦ , Mark 6:29; αὐτῶν , Revelation 11:8-9 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 472 f.).†
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