πτῶμα
fall
‘fall’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G4430 appears in the Accusative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun πτωμα centers on the idea of “fall.” First canonically at Matthew 14:12, it enters the text early. It turns up in 6 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (33%), then Mark and Revelation. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4430 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 2 verses 33%
- Mark 2 verses 33%
- Revelation 2 verses 33%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 67%
- Johannine 2 verses · 33%
- Revelation 2 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Dead bodies 3×
- American Standard Version: Dead bodies 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Body 3×, Bodies 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Corpse 4×, Corpses 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4430 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4430 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4430 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4430 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- metaph. a failure, defeat, calamity
- an error, lapse into sin
- that which has fallen
Word origin
Derived from πιπτω (píptō) (G4098) — to fall.
From the alternate of G4098 ; a ruin that is (specifically) lifeless body ( corpse carrion ): - dead body carcase corpse.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4430 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πτῶμα ptō̂ma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 14:12 | 6 |
| πτώματα ptṓmata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 11:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4430, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πτωμα appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 5 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 14:8 πτῶμα
- Job 15:23 πτῶμα
- Psalms 109:6 πτῶμα
- Proverbs 16:14 πτῶμα
- Isaiah 8:14 πτῶμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4430) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 14:8 πτῶμα After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
- Job 15:23 πτῶμα He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- Job 16:14 πτῶμα He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
- Job 18:12 πτῶμα His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
- Job 20:5 πτῶμα That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Job 31:29 πτῶμα "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
- Job 33:17 πτῶμα That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
- Job 37:16 πτῶμα Do you know the workings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
- Psalms 109:6 πτῶμα Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- Proverbs 16:14 πτῶμα The king's wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man will pacify it.
- Isaiah 8:14 πτῶμα He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 30:13 πτῶμα therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
- Isaiah 30:14 πτῶμα He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Isaiah 51:19 πτῶμα These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4430) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
