Strong G4428πτύσσω

to roll up

Transliteration
ptussō
Pronunciation
ptoos'-so
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

Probably akin to πετάννυμι petannumi (to spread; and thus apparently allied to G4072 through the idea of expansion and to G4429 through that of flattening; compare G3961); to fold that is furl a scroll: - close.

Detailed definition

πτύσσω
to fold; of a scroll, to roll up: βιβλίον, Luk.4:20 (cf. ἀνα-πτύσσω).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4428 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • close1

First verses

  1. Luke 4:20
    And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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Related words

Detailed Greek dictionary
πτύσσω
(never πτύττω), (ἀνα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 301:)]future πτύξω (ἀνα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1256:)]aorist ἔπτυξα (see. below):—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.77)] (ποτι-), etc.: future πτύξομαι (προσ-) [Refs (3.22:)]aorist ἐπτυξάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 267)]:—passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.134, etc.:)]aorist ἐπτύχθην (ἀν-, δι-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.5, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 709:)]aorist 2 ἐπτύγην [ῠ], (ἀν-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 48)]: perfect ἔπτυγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.72, etc., (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 357; πέπτυκται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536a11:)]pluperfect ἔπτυκτο (προσ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.39)]:—fold, double up, χιτῶνα, εἵματα πτύξαι, fold up garments and put them by, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.439, 6.111, 252; σπλῆνα 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 8)]; χεῖρας πτύξαι ἐπί τινι fold one's arms over or round another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1611)]; βιβλίον fold, close a book, [NT (NT.Luke.4.20.)]
II passive, of the foetus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.69)]; of bandages, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).826; γραμματεῖα ἐπτυγμένα 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 1.17.1)]; πύργοι ἐπτ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus [same place])]; ἔγχεα δὲ πτύσσοντο perhaps were interlaced, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [prev. cited])]
II.2 fold or cling round, χιτὼν.. ἀμφὶ μηρὸν πτύσσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 872.3 (Lyric poetry).)]
III middle, fold round oneself, wrap round one, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 267.)]