ΔΙΑΠΤΩΣΙΣ, διαπτωσις
DIAPTŌSIS, diaptōsis
Sounds Like: dee-ap-TOH-sis
Translations: falling away, a falling away, failure, a failure, ruin, apostasy
From the root: ΠΤΩΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a compound noun, formed from the prefix 'διά' (dia), meaning 'through' or 'apart', and 'πτῶσις' (ptōsis), meaning 'a fall' or 'a falling'. It refers to a falling away, a failure, or a ruin. It can describe a moral or spiritual decline, a defection, or a state of collapse. In some contexts, it specifically denotes apostasy, a renunciation of faith.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1248 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Jeremiah — 19:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Jeremiah — 19:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΩΣΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΤΩΣΕΙ — (to) a fall, (in) a fall, (to) ruin, (in) ruin, (to) a collapse, (in) a collapse
- ΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ — falls, downfalls, ruins, failures, calamities, misfortunes
- ΠΤΩΣΕΩΣ — of a fall, of a falling, of a ruin, of a downfall, of a collapse
- ΠΤΩΣΙ — fall, a fall, downfall, ruin, a ruin, defeat, a defeat, corpse, a corpse
- ΠΤΩΣΙΝ — fall, a fall, ruin, a ruin, downfall, a downfall
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