ΠΤΩΣΙΝ, πτωσιν
PTŌSIN, ptōsin
Sounds Like: PTOH-sin
Translations: fall, a fall, ruin, a ruin, downfall, a downfall
From the root: ΠΤΩΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a physical act of falling, such as a person or object falling to the ground. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a downfall, ruin, or collapse, often in a moral or societal sense. It signifies a state of decline or destruction.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4436 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 124:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 2:34
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.
- ΔΙΑΠΤΩΣΙΣ — falling away, a falling away, failure, a failure, ruin, apostasy
- 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
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