Quick Definition
I fold, roll up
Strong's Definition
and thus apparently allied to G4072 (πέτομαι) through the idea of expansion, and to 4429 through that of flattening; compare G3961 (πατέω)); to fold, i.e. furl a scroll
Derivation: probably akin to (to spread;
KJV Usage: close
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πτύσσω: 1 aorist participle πτύξας; in classical Greek from Homer down; to fold together, roll up: τό βιβλίον, Luk_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.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πτύσσω ptyssō 1x
to fold; to roll up a scroll, Luk_4:20
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* πτύσσω ,
to fold; of a scroll, to roll up : βιβλίον , Luk_4:20 ( cf. ἀνα -πτύσσω ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πτύσσω [page 558]
With this verb used of rolling up a scroll in Luk_4:20 , its only occurrence in the NT, cf. πτυκτός , a folding writing-tablet, as in P Strass I. 37 .12 (iii/A.D.) πτυκ̣τ̣ῶν τριῶν . For the medical use of πτύσσω see Hobart, p. 106 f. The compound περιπτύσσω occurs in P Lond 1925 .6 (mid. iv/A.D.) αὐτ̣α̣ῖς ὄψεσνεσύίν̣ σε περιπτύξασθαι , to embrace you with my very eyes.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πτύσσω "to fold", χιτῶνα, εἵματα πτύξαι "to fold up" garments, and put them by, Od. ; χεῖρας πτύξαι ἐπί τινι "to fold" one's arms over or round another, Soph. ; βιβλίον πτ. "to fold up or close" a book, NTest. :—Pass. "to be folded, doubled up", Il. ; Mid. "to fold round oneself, wrap round one", Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πτύσσω
to fold; of a scroll, to roll up: βιβλίον, Luk.4:20 (cf. ἀνα-πτύσσω).†
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