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Strong's #4430: ptoma (pronounced pto'-mah)

from the alternate of 4098; a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion):--dead body, carcase, corpse.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ptōma

1) a fall, downfall

1a) metaphorically a failure, defeat, calamity

1b) an error, lapse into sin

2) that which has fallen

2a) the fallen body of one dead or slain, a corpse, a carcase

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from the alternate of G4098

Citing in TDNT: 6:166, 846




Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Matthew 24:28: "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the"
Mark 6:29: "and took up his corpse, and laid it in"
Revelation 11:8: "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great"
Revelation 11:9: "nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half,"
Revelation 11:9: "shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves."









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