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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 - God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:26 - They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:5 - You need not fear the terrors of the night, 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 to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 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 in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Seraphs stood over him; each one had six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and they used the remaining two to fly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the Philistine hills to the west; together they will loot the people of the east. They will take over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Don't be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent's root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - Just as birds hover over a nest, so the LORD who commands armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; as he passes over he will rescue it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - I will shock many peoples with you, and their kings will shiver with horror because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - yes, while I was still praying, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, around the time of the evening offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses are faster than leopards and more alert than wolves in the desert. Their horses gallop, their horses come a great distance; like a vulture they swoop down quickly to devour their prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1 - Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - Someone asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide."
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