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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 water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5 - You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 - the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you, and their kings will shudder with horror because of you when I brandish my sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1 - I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[fn]”
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