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Lexicon :: Strong's G4072 - petomai

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πέτομαι
Transliteration
petomai (Key)
Pronunciation
pet'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice of a primary verb
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Strong’s Definitions

†πέτομαι pétomai, pet'-om-ahee; middle voice of a primary verb; to fly:—fly(-ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G4072 in the following manner: fly (3x), flying (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G4072 in the following manner: fly (3x), flying (2x).

  1. to fly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†πέτομαι pétomai, pet'-om-ahee; middle voice of a primary verb; to fly:—fly(-ing).
STRONGS G4072:
πετάομαι, πετωμαι; a doubtful later Greek form for the earlier πέτομαι (see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 581; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii, p. 271f; cf. Winers Grammar, 88 (84); (Buttmann, 65 (58); Veitch, under the word)); to fly: in the N. T. found only in present participle, πετωμενος, Rec. in Revelation 4:7; Revelation 8:13; Revelation 14:6; Revelation 19:17, where since Griesbach πετόμενος has been restored.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Revelation
4:7; 8:13; 14:6; 19:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4072 matches the Greek πέτομαι (petomai),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles [fn]having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5 - (LXX 90:5) Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 - the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the [fn]sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The Vision of the Quadrupeds in the Desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion's whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem, and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - And many nations shall mourn over thee, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own fall from the day of thy fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1 - And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying sickle, of the length of twenty cubits, and of the breadth of ten cubits.
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