Quick Definition
a carcass, corpse
Strong's Definition
a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion)
Derivation: from the alternate of G4098 (πίπτω);
KJV Usage: dead body, carcase, corpse
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πτῶμα, πτώματος, τό (πίπτω, perfect πέπτωκα);
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.: Mat_14:12 L T Tr WH; Mar_15:45 L T Tr WH; Mat_24:28; τίνος, Mar_6:29; Rev_11:8-9.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πτῶμα ptōma 7x
a fall; a dead body, carcass, corpse, Mat_24:28 ; Mar_6:29
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πτῶμα -τος , τό
( < πίπτω ),
[in LXX : Jdg_14:8 ( H4658 ), Job_16:15 (14) ( H6556 ), Isa_51:19 ( H7701 ), Jdt_8:19 , Wis_4:18 , al. ;]
1. a fall, metaph ., a misfortune, calamity (Trag., Plat ., Polyb ., al. ; LXX ).
2. That which has fallen;
(a) of buildings, a ruin ( Polyb .);
(b) of living creatures, in cl . (poλt. only) usually c . gen ., νεκρῶν , etc., but also absol. , as in late writers and NT, a fallen body, a carcase, corpse: Mat_14:12 ; Mat_24:28 , Mar_15:45 ; Papyri αὐτοῦ , Mar_6:29 ; αὐτῶν , Rev_11:8-9 ( cf. Rutherford, NPhr. , 472 f .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πτῶμα [page 558]
πτῶμα in the NT is confined to its late sense (cf. Rutherford NP p. 472 f.) of a dead body : cf. the collective sing., as in Rev_11:8 , in Syll 318 (= .3 700) .17 (B.C. 118) ἐτρέ [ψ ]ατο τοὺς ὑπεναντίους καὶ τοῦ τε πτώματος ἐκράτησεν καὶ πο [λ ]λοὺς αὐτῶν ἀπέκτεινεν . See also Kaibel 326 .5 where a man guards against ἕτερον πτῶμα being placed in his family tomb.
For the meaning ruin of a building, cf. P Oxy I. 52 .12 (A.D. 325) ἐκ τοῦ συμβάντος πτώματος τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ . The word is also used of payments falling due as in P Eleph 11 .4 (B.C. 223 2) ἐ [ν οἷς ἔτε ]σιν τὰ πτώματα γέγονεν , and in P Lond 3 .37 (B.C. 146 or 135) (= I. p. 47). See further Archiv i. p. 87. In a series of farm-accounts, P Fay 102 .20 ( c . A.D. 105), certain boys are described as διαλέγοντες πτῶμα , which the editors think may refer to gleaning.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πτῶμα πτῶμα, ατος, τό, [Etym: πίπτω, πέπτωκα] "a fall", πεσεῖν πτώματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά Aesch. ; πίπτουσι πτώματ᾽ αἰσχρά Soph. metaph. "a fall, calamity", Lat. casus, Eur. of persons, "a fallen body, corpse, carcase", πτῶμα Ἑλένης, Ἐτεοκλέους id=Eur. ; also πτώματα alone, Aesch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πτῶμα -τος, τό
(πίπτω), [in LXX: Jdg.14:8 (מַפֶּלֶת), Job.16:15 (14) (פֶּרֶץ), Isa.51:19 (שֹׁד), Jdth.8:19, Wis.4:18, al. ;]
__1. a fall, metaphorically, a misfortune, calamity (Trag., Plat., Polyb., al.; LXX).
__2. That which has fallen;
__(a) of buildings, a ruin (Polyb.);
__(b) of living creatures, in cl. (poët. only) usually with genitive, νεκρῶν, etc., but also absol., as in late writers and NT, a fallen body, a carcase, corpse: Mat.14:12 24:28, Mrk.15:45; π. αὐτοῦ, Mrk.6:29; αὐτῶν, Rev.11:8-9 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 472 f.).†
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