◄ 4431. ptósis ►
Lexicon
ptósis: Fall, downfall, ruin

Original Word: πτῶσις
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: ptósis
Pronunciation: pto'-sis
Phonetic Spelling: (pto'-sis)
KJV: fall
NASB: fall
Word Origin: [from the alternate of G4098 (πίπτω - fell)]

1. a crash, i.e. downfall
{literally or figuratively}

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
fall.

From the alternate of pipto; a crash, i.e. Downfall (literally or figuratively) -- fall.

see GREEK pipto

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from piptó
Definition
a fall
NASB Translation
fall (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4431: πτῶσις

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.)

Forms and Transliterations
πτώσει πτώσεως πτώσεώς πτωσιν πτώσιν πτῶσιν πτωσις πτώσις πτῶσις ptosin ptôsin ptōsin ptō̂sin ptosis ptôsis ptōsis ptō̂sis
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 7:27 N-NFS
GRK: ἦν ἡ πτῶσις αὐτῆς μεγάλη
NAS: and it fell-- and great was its fall.
KJV: great was the fall of it.
INT: was the fall of it great

Luke 2:34 N-AFS
GRK: κεῖται εἰς πτῶσιν καὶ ἀνάστασιν
NAS: [Child] is appointed for the fall and rise
KJV: for the fall and
INT: is appointed for [the] fall and rising up

Strong's Greek 4431
2 Occurrences


πτῶσιν — 1 Occ.
πτῶσις — 1 Occ.

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