noun · feminine
ptōsias
Strong’sG4431
a falling, a fall
stem ptōsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
πτῶσις, -εως, ἡ
(< πίπτω), [in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶף, מַפֶּלֶת, and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4431 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpto'-sis
a crash, i.e. downfall (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom the alternate of G4098;
King Jamesfall.
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
(πίπτω, πέ-πτωκα) falling, fall, κύβων Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, calamity, ἐν καιρῷ πτώσεως LXX+5th c.AD+; death, Refs 6th c.AD+
II Grammars, mode or modification of a word, Refs 4th c.BC+; applied to cases, including nominative,Refs: to superlative of adjectives, Refs: so by the Stoics to variety of flexion, Refs., title of work by Chrysipp.,Refs 2nd c.BC+; κατὰ μίαν πτῶσιν indeclinable, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III in the Logic of Refs 4th c.BC+, mood of syllogisms, Refs
III.b arrangement of terms in a syllogism, Refs
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.
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 nominative | ptōsias1×πτῶσις | ptōsiais |
| object accusative | ptōsian1×πτῶσιν | ptōsiain |
| direct address vocative | ptōsiar | ptōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ptōsiau | ptōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | ptōsia | ptōsiai |
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
ptōsia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ptōsias“fall”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 7:27“fall”… ekeina, kai piptata, kai ate tas ptōsias autau megas.… beat against that house, and it fell— and great was its collapse!”
ptōsian“fall”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 2:34… mētēran autou; Idou houtos keiotō eis ptōsian kai anastasian polloiu en to Israēl …… appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to …