Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
fall
Usage: πτῶσις, -εως, ἡ (πίπτω), [in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶף, מַפֶּלֶת, and cogn. forms ;] a falling, fall (Plat., Plut., al.): Mat.7:27; metaphorically, Luk.2:34.† (AS)
Ptosis means “fall” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4431 — melak (“counsel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4431 πτῶσις (ptosis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ptosis (pto`-sis) n. 1. a crash, i.e. downfall {literally or figuratively} It has 37 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include fall. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
ptosis (pto`-sis) n. 1. a crash, i.e. downfall {literally or figuratively} [from the alternate of G4098] KJV: fall Root(s): G4098
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fall
Usage: πτῶσις, -εως, ἡ (πίπτω), [in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶף, מַפֶּלֶת, and cogn. forms ;] a falling, fall (Plat., Plut., al.): Mat.7:27; metaphorically, Luk.2:34.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ptosis, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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.
Strong's G4431 (πτῶσις) appears 37 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.
And the children of Israel saw that the liers in wait had seized Gibeah, and they stood in line of battle; and Benjamin began to smite down wounded ones among the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they fall again before us, as in the first battle.
And destruction was multiplied among them.
16 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
she rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath days, and in her feast days,
Then they who were before despised and nigh unto Hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
For the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security, And shall understand all the words of this book, And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them In the overthrow of their sins.
First 37 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4431.
If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.
And the children of Israel saw that the liers in wait had seized Gibeah, and they stood in line of battle; and Benjamin began to smite down wounded ones among the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they fall again before us, as in the first battle.
And destruction was multiplied among them.
The word against Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:
thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it anymore.
They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
For thus saith the Lord God to Tyre; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee?
And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall.
Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice plants of Lebanon, all that drink water.
And many nations shall mourn over thee, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own fall from the day of thy fall.
and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies
And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And this shall be the overthrow of the horses, and mules, and camels, and asses, and all the beasts that are in those camps, according to this overthrow.
And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
she rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath days, and in her feast days,
Then they who were before despised and nigh unto Hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
For the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.
And he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may come hereafter; And when he falleth, he shall find a stay.
But if he go wrong, she will forsake him, And give him over to his own ruin.
Accept no person against thy soul, And let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.
Honor and shame is in talk: And the tongue of man is his fall.
Like as a partridge taken and kept in a cage, so is the heart of the proud: And like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall:
Observe, and take good heed, For thou walkest in peril of thy overthrowing: When thou hearest these things, awake in thy sleep.
To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: So the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.
There be nine things which I have judged in my heart to be happy, And the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; And he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy.
They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be taken in the snare; And anguish shall consume them before they die.
Eat, as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; And devour not, lest thou be hated.
He took care of the temple that it should not fall, And fortified the city against besieging:
Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security, And shall understand all the words of this book, And recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them In the overthrow of their sins.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4431, grouped by book.
Ptosis (Strong's G4431) is a Greek word most simply glossed "fall". ptosis (pto`-sis) n. 1. a crash, i.e. downfall {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 37 linked usages for Strong's G4431 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4431 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fall. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 16 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G4431, with linked reader references where each row is available.