πτῶμα
ptōma · G4430 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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dead body, corpse
A dead body, whether of an animal or a human being
ExamplesMatthew 14:12 John’s disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.
Matthew 24:28 “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
Mark 6:29 When his disciples heard about this, they came and carried away his body, and laid it in a tomb.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τίθημιto put 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 2
- δωρέομαιto give 1
- προσέρχομαιto come to, to approach 1
- βλέπωto see 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 1
- πλατύςwide 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dead body, corpse8.7
- The noun names a dead body. Mark recounts that after John the Baptist's death, “his disciples heard about this, [and] they came and carried away his body, and laid it in a tomb” (Mark 6:29).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πτώματος, τό (πίπτω, perfect πέπτωκα); 1. in Greek writings from Aeschylus down, a fall,…
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.: Mt 14:12 L T Tr WH; Mk 15:45 L T Tr WH; Mt 24:28; τίνος, Mk 6:29; Rev 11:8, Rev 11:9.
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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