πτύσσω
ptýssō · G4428 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to roll up, to make into a roll
To cause something to be in the shape of a roll
ExamplesLuke 4:20 And He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all the people in the synagogue were intently directed at Him.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βιβλίονbook, scroll 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἑλίσσω helíssō · G1667 · to roll up, to make into a roll
- πτύσσω and ἑλίσσω both denote the action of rolling or folding a scroll. πτύσσω emphasizes a folding motion, while ἑλίσσω emphasizes coiling; both converge on the same concrete procedure of closing up a scroll.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To roll up, to make into a roll79.120
- The verb describes rolling up a scroll after reading from it. Luke records that in the Nazareth synagogue Jesus “rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down” (Luke 4:20).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist participle πτύξας; in classical Greek from Homer down; to fold together, roll…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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