Strong's Concordance ptussó: to fold, i.e. roll up Original Word: πτύσσωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ptussó Phonetic Spelling: (ptoos'-so) Short Definition: I fold, roll up Definition: I fold, roll up (as a scroll). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4428: πτύσσωπτύσσω: 1 aorist participle πτύξας; in classical Greek from Homer down; to fold together, roll up: τό βιβλίον, Luke 4:20 (A. V. closed); see ἀναπτύσσω (and cf. Schlottmann in Riehm under the word Schrift; Strack: in Herzog edition 2 under the word Sehreibkunst, etc. Compare: ἀναπτύσσω.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance close. Probably akin to petannumi (to spread; and thus apparently allied to petomai through the idea of expansion, and to ptuo through that of flattening; compare pateo); to fold, i.e. Furl a scroll -- close. see GREEK petomai see GREEK pateo Forms and Transliterations πτυξας πτύξας πτυχαί ptuxas ptyxas ptýxasLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 44281 Occurrence πτύξας — 1 Occ. Luke 4:20 V-APA-NMS GRK: καὶ πτύξας τὸ βιβλίον NAS: And He closed the book, gave it back KJV: And he closed the book, INT: And having rolled up the scroll |