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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - πτῶμα
πτῶμα
G4430
Transliteration: ptōma
Pronunciation: pto'-mah
Definition: dead body
- Original: πτῶμα - Transliteration: Ptoma - Phonetic: pto'-mah
- Definition:
1. a fall, downfall
a. metaph. a failure, defeat, calamity
b. an error, lapse into sin
2. that which has fallen
a. the fallen body of one dead or slain, a corpse, a carcase
- Origin: from the alternate of G4098" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4098 - TDNT entry: 08:46,8 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter - Strong's: From the alternate of G4098" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4098; a ruin that is (specifically) lifeless body (corpse carrion): - dead body carcase corpse.