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Strong's G4430 πτῶμα (ptoma)

Ptoma means “corpse” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4430 — melek (“king”) in the Hebrew Bible.

First usage Interlinear Bible Septuagint Bible
Strong's Number G4430
Language Greek
Linked Usages 24
Books 13

Strong's G4430 Quick Answer

Strong's G4430 πτῶμα (ptoma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ptoma (pto`-mah) n. 1. a ruin 2. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion) It has 24 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include dead and corpse. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ptoma (pto`-mah) n. 1. a ruin 2. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion)
Usage
24 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
dead and corpse

Meaning and Definition

ptoma (pto`-mah) n. 1. a ruin 2. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion) [from the alternate of G4098] KJV: dead body, carcase, corpse Root(s): G4098

Original Word
πτῶμα
Transliteration
ptoma
Derivation
Root: πίπτω R1: 4098
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4430. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

corpse

Usage: 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.).† (AS)

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How Strong's G4430 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ptoma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

dead Revelation 11:8 2× corpse Mark 6:29

How Strong's G4430 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 14 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4430 (πτῶμα) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4430 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4430 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 24:28 KJV

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Mark 6:29 KJV

And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

Revelation 11:8 KJV

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Strong's G4430 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

14 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Judges 14:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And after some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.

Job 15:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

Job 16:14 Septuagint / Brenton

They overthrew me with fall upon fall: They ran upon me in their might.

Strong's G4430 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 8:19 Septuagint / Brenton

For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.

Judith 13:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things, because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said, So be it, so be it.

2 Maccabees 9:7 Septuagint / Brenton

Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to hasten the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.

Usage Excerpts

First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4430.

Judges 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.
Job 15:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
Job 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They overthrew me with fall upon fall: They ran upon me in their might.
Job 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Vex him with distressing hunger: And a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
Job 20:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, And the joy of transgressors is destruction:
Job 31:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, And my heart said, Aha!
Job 33:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To turn a man from unrighteousness, And he delivers his body from a fall.
Job 37:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he knows the divisions of the clouds, And the signal overthrows of the ungodly.
Psalms 109:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, He shall crush the heads of many on the earth.
Proverbs 16:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Pride goes before destruction, And folly before a fall.
Isaiah 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against him as against a stumbling stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.
Isaiah 30:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.
Isaiah 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, as small fragments of a pitcher, so that thou shouldest not find among them a sherd, with which thou mightest take up fire, and with which thou shouldest draw a little water.
Isaiah 51:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?
Matthew 24:28 New Testament, KJV
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Mark 6:29 New Testament, KJV
And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.
Revelation 11:8 New Testament, KJV
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:9 New Testament, KJV
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Judith 8:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.
Judith 13:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things, because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said, So be it, so be it.
2 Maccabees 9:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to hasten the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
Wisdom of Sirach 31:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, Set not thy heart upon them.
Baruch 4:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4430, grouped by book.

Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 14:8
Job 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 15:23 Job 16:14 Job 18:12 Job 20:5 Job 31:29 Job 33:17 Job 37:16
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 109:6
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 16:18
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8:14 Isaiah 30:13 Isaiah 30:14 Isaiah 51:19
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Matthew 24:28
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 6:29
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 11:8 Revelation 11:9
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 8:19 Judith 13:20
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 9:7
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 4:19
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 31:6
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 4:33

Strong's G4430 FAQ

What does ptoma (πτῶμα) mean?

Ptoma (Strong's G4430) is a Greek word most simply glossed "corpse". ptoma (pto`-mah) n. 1. a ruin 2. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion)

How many times is ptoma (πτῶμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's G4430 across 13 books.

Where can I study ptoma (πτῶμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4430 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate ptoma (πτῶμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dead and corpse. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4430 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 14 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4430, with linked reader references where each row is available.