ptōmem

Strong’sG4430

a carcass, corpse

stem ptōm-7 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

πτῶμα, -τος, τό

(< πίπτω), [in LXX: Jg 14:8 (מַפֶּלֶת), Jb 16:15 (14) (פֶּרֶץ), Is 51:19 (שֹׁד), Jth 8:19, Wi 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. (poët. only) usually c. gen., νεκρῶν, etc., but also absol., as in late writers and NT, a fallen body, a carcase, corpse: Mt 14:12 24:28, Mk 15:45; π. αὐτοῦ, Mk 6:29; αὐτῶν, Re 11:8, 9 (cf. Rutherford, NPhr., 472 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4430 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpto'-mah

a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion)

Fromfrom the alternate of G4098;

King Jamesdead body, carcase, corpse.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

πτῶμα, ατος, τό,
(πίπτω) fall, πεσεῖν.. πτώματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἔπεσε τοιοῦτον π. Refs 5th c.BC+
b fall in wrestling, Refs 3rd c.BC+: metaphorically, booby-trap, π. φιλοσόφων ἀπαλαιστρότατον Refs 1st c.BC+; lapse, blunder, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 metaphorically, misfortune, calamity, τά γ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν πτώματα calamities sent by the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 plural, injuries due to falls, bruises, Refs 1st c.AD+
II fallen body, corpse, carcase, frequently with genitive, πτῶμα Ἑλένης, Ἐτεοκλέους, LXX+5th c.BC+: without a genitive, Refs 4th c.BC+: collective in singular, NT+2nd c.BC+
II.2 of buildings, ruin, οἰκίας, κρηνῖδος, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐπὶ τοῦ π. on the ruins (of the wall), Refs 2nd c.BC+; breach in a city-wall, Refs 1st c.BC+: plural, ruins, Refs 3rd c.BC+; π. ἐλαιῶν fallen olive-trees or fruit, Refs 5th c.BC+; windfall fruit, of the φοῖνιξ, Refs 1st c.AD+
III payment which falls due, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

body3×dead bodies3×corpse1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	ptōmem2×πτῶμα	ptōmeim
of, belonging to genitive	ptōmeu	ptōmeiu
to, for dative	ptōme	ptōmei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

ptōmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ptōme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

7 occurrences, every one of them listed

ptōmem“corpse”subject or objectdirect singular2×

Matthew 24:28“corpse”hopou ean ateiō tem ptōmem, ekei sunagili tois aetois.Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

Revelation 11:8“dead bodies”kai tem ptōmem autoiu epi tau plateiau tau polau …Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city — figuratively called …

ptōmem4×

Matthew 14:12… prosercharantois tois mathētois autou airala tem ptōmem kai thaptala auton, kai ercharantois apangelala …… John’s disciples came and took his body and buried it. And they went …

Mark 6:29… mathētois autou erchala kai airala tem ptōmem autou kai tithala autem en mnēmeie.… this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

Mark 15:45… gnōskarantos apo tou kenturiōnou dōreta tem ptōmem to Iōsēf.… with the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

Revelation 11:9“dead bodies”… fulaiu kai glōssaiu kai ethneiu tem ptōmem autoiu hēmerain treis kai hēmisuem, kai …For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not …

ptōmeim1×

Revelation 11:9“dead bodies”… hēmerain treis kai hēmisuem, kai teim ptōmeim autoiu ouk afiēkalō tithira eis mnēmem.For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.