Word Summary
ptyssō: to fold, roll up
Original Word: πτύσσωTransliteration: ptyssō
Phonetic Spelling: (ptoos'-so)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to fold, roll up
Meaning: to fold, roll up
Strong's 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
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.)