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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 18 times in 18 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 -

Then God said, “Let the waters [fn]teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth [fn]in the open [fn]expanse of the heavens.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 -

For man is born for trouble,

As sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 -

“They slip by like reed boats,

Like an eagle that swoops on [fn]its prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 -

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;

Like a vision of the night he is chased away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5 -

You will not be afraid of the terror by night,

Or of the arrow that flies by day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:12 -

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,

And if you scoff, you alone will [fn]suffer from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 -

The way of the eagle in the sky,

The way of a snake on a rock,

The way of a ship in the middle of the sea,

And the way of a man with a [fn]virgin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Seraphim were standing above Him, each having six wings: with two each covered his face, and with two each covered his feet, and with two each flew.

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They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;

Together they will plunder the [fn]people of the east;

[fn]They will possess Edom and Moab,

And the sons of Ammon will be [fn]subject to them.

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“Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you,

Because the rod that struck you is broken;

For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,

And its fruit will be a winged serpent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 -

The pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:

Through a land of distress and anguish,

From [fn]where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,

They carry their riches on the [fn]backs of young donkeys,

And their treasures on camels’ humps,

To a people who will not benefit them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 -

Like [fn]flying birds so the LORD of armies will protect Jerusalem.

He will protect and save it;

He will pass over and rescue it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 -

“Who are these who fly like a cloud

And like the doves to their windows?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - “And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision [fn]previously, [fn]came to me [fn]in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 -

“Their horses are faster than leopards,

And quicker than wolves in the evening.

Their [fn]horsemen charge along,

Their [fn]horsemen come from afar;

They fly like an eagle [fn]swooping down to devour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1 -

Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is [fn]twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”
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