Definition

a ruin, i.e. (specially), lifeless body (corpse, carrion)

Etymology

from the alternate of G4098 (πίπτω);

Where the KJV renders it

• dead body
• carcase
• corpse

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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