Strong G4072πέτομαι
to fly
- Transliteration
- petomai petaomai ptaomai
- Pronunciation
- pet'-om-ahee pet-ah'-om-ahee ptah'-om-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Including the prolonged form (second form) and contraction (third form) of the middle voice of a primary verb; to fly: - fly (-ing).
Detailed definition
πέτομαι
[in LXX chiefly for עוּף;]
to fly: Rev.4:7 8:13 12:14 14:6 19:17 (Rec. πετάομαι, which see).†
πετάομαι,
[in LXX: Deu.4:17 *;]
false form of ποτάομαι, poët., frequentat. of πέτομαι (Aristoph., al.), Rec. for πέτομαι (which see, cf. Veitch, see word)
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for עוּף;]
to fly: Rev.4:7 8:13 12:14 14:6 19:17 (Rec. πετάομαι, which see).†
πετάομαι,
[in LXX: Deu.4:17 *;]
false form of ποτάομαι, poët., frequentat. of πέτομαι (Aristoph., al.), Rec. for πέτομαι (which see, cf. Veitch, see word)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4072 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fly4
- flying1
First verses
- Revelation 4:7And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
- Revelation 8:13And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
- Revelation 12:14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
- Revelation 14:6And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
- Revelation 19:17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
πέτομαι,
2nd pers. singular πέτεαι [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 9:)]imperfect ἐπετόμην, Epic dialect πετ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.366, etc.)]: future πετήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 77, compare 1126 (ἀπο-))]; shortened πτήσομαι (ἐκ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “V.” 208, and always in early Prose, (ἀνα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 905a, +others, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.15 (mostly in compounds, but πτήσεσθαι in later Prose, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 2.27):)]aorist ἐπτόμην, infinitive πτέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17)]; elsewhere in compounds, (ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.126, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58, etc.)]; frequently also ἐπτάμην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.592, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 18, (παρ-) 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 13, (ἐς-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.100)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular πτάτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.880,)]infinitive πτάσθαι (δια-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1)], participle πτάμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.282, 22.362, etc. (in codices of 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus forms of ἐπτόμην)] in compounds predominate over those from ἐπτάμη; δι-έπτατο is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1086, ἐκ-πτόμενος)] followed by κατ-έπτατο [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 788 {πετόντεσσι})]; ἀν-επτάμαν is probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 693 (Lyric poetry), προσ-έπτατο [prev. work] 382))]; subjunctive πτῆται for πτᾶται, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.170: also)]aorist of active form ἔπτην, ἔπτης, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 14.2550, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Trag.” 218, ἔπτη Batrachomyomachia 208, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.223, +others, “Anacreontea” 22.3; _optative_ πταίης “Anthologia Graeca” 5.151 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]; participle πτᾶσα [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 398, Hdn.Gr. 1.532)]; elsewhere only in compounds, (δι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“IG” 3.1386, (ἐξ-) 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 98, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1307, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 440, (προς-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 115, (ὑπερ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 113 (Trag. only in Lyric poetry):)]perfect πέπτηκα only as a coinage in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.79, elsewhere πεπότημαι (see. ποτάομαι))]: aorist passive ἐπετάσθην [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624b6 (εἰς-), LXX.Psa.17(18).10, LXX.Hos.9.11 (ἐξ-), 1st-2nd c.AD: Sotion Paradoxographus p.186 W., 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.77 (ἐξ-))]: future passive πετασθήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Hab.1.8.)]—The only present in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ Prose is πέτομαι)]; πέταμαι is used by [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.8, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 30, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.90, “N.” 6.48, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 90 (_anapaest meter_), “Anthologia Graeca” 11.208 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus))], and in later Prose, as [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 709b10, “HA” 609a14 (περι-), cf. Moer. p.311)] P.; noted as archaic by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pseudol.” 29)]: aorist imperative πέτασσαι [Refs (“Anacreontea” 14.2)]; ἵπταμαι (which see) is first found in late writers, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.43, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 65.4, etc.)] (mostly in compounds, compare ἐξίπταμα; ἀφίπτατο in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1608 is spurious))], and is censured by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 25, “Sol.” 7)]:—fly, of birds, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.207, 13.62, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.147, etc.)]; of bees, gnats, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.89, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.95)]; of a departing spirit, ψυχὴ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδόσδε βεβήκει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.362; ἐκ μελέων θυμὸς πτάτο 23.880)]: metaphorically, of young children, οὐδέπω μακρὰν πτέσθαι σθενοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17)]; also of arrows, javelins, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.99, etc.; ὀλοοίτροχος.. ἀναθρῴσκων π. 13.140 (but ἐκ χειρῶν ἔπτατ᾽ ἐρετμά, τεύχεα)] fell suddenly.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.203, 24.534))]; of any quick motion, dart, rush, of men, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.755, 22.143, etc.)]; of horses, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν, τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην [Refs (5.366, compare 768)], etc.; of chariots, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 308)]; of dancers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 71 (Lyric poetry))]; πέτον fly! i.e. make haste! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 321)]; ἔχρην πετομένας ἥκειν πάλαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 55; πολλοὶ ἥξουσι πετόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567d, compare 467d)]; πέτονται.. ἐπὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἄκλητοι, of parasites, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 229.)]
II metaphorically and proverbial usages:—to be on the wing, flutter, of uncertain hopes, ἐξ ἐλπίδος π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.90)]; π. ἐλπίσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 487 (Lyric poetry))]; of fickle natures, πέτει τε καὶ φρονῶν οὐδὲν φρονεῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 332)]; ἐφ᾽ ἕτερον π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 899)]; ὄρνις πετόμενος a bird ever on the wing, [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 169)]; πετόμενόν τινα διώκεις 'you are chasing a butterfly', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 4a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1009b38)]; of fame, fly abroad, πέταται τηλόθεν ὄνυμ᾽ αὐτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.48.)]
II.2 with dative, πτάμενος νοήματι flying in mind, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 122.4. (Cf. πίπτω)], Sanskritpátati 'fly', 'fall', Latin prae-pes, etc.)
2nd pers. singular πέτεαι [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 9:)]imperfect ἐπετόμην, Epic dialect πετ- [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.366, etc.)]: future πετήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 77, compare 1126 (ἀπο-))]; shortened πτήσομαι (ἐκ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “V.” 208, and always in early Prose, (ἀνα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 905a, +others, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.15 (mostly in compounds, but πτήσεσθαι in later Prose, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 2.27):)]aorist ἐπτόμην, infinitive πτέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17)]; elsewhere in compounds, (ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.126, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58, etc.)]; frequently also ἐπτάμην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.592, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 18, (παρ-) 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 13, (ἐς-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.100)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular πτάτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.880,)]infinitive πτάσθαι (δια-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1)], participle πτάμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.282, 22.362, etc. (in codices of 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus forms of ἐπτόμην)] in compounds predominate over those from ἐπτάμη; δι-έπτατο is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1086, ἐκ-πτόμενος)] followed by κατ-έπτατο [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 788 {πετόντεσσι})]; ἀν-επτάμαν is probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 693 (Lyric poetry), προσ-έπτατο [prev. work] 382))]; subjunctive πτῆται for πτᾶται, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.170: also)]aorist of active form ἔπτην, ἔπτης, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 14.2550, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Trag.” 218, ἔπτη Batrachomyomachia 208, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.223, +others, “Anacreontea” 22.3; _optative_ πταίης “Anthologia Graeca” 5.151 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus))]; participle πτᾶσα [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 398, Hdn.Gr. 1.532)]; elsewhere only in compounds, (δι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“IG” 3.1386, (ἐξ-) 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 98, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1307, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 440, (προς-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 115, (ὑπερ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 113 (Trag. only in Lyric poetry):)]perfect πέπτηκα only as a coinage in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.79, elsewhere πεπότημαι (see. ποτάομαι))]: aorist passive ἐπετάσθην [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624b6 (εἰς-), LXX.Psa.17(18).10, LXX.Hos.9.11 (ἐξ-), 1st-2nd c.AD: Sotion Paradoxographus p.186 W., 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.77 (ἐξ-))]: future passive πετασθήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Hab.1.8.)]—The only present in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ Prose is πέτομαι)]; πέταμαι is used by [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.8, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 30, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.90, “N.” 6.48, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 90 (_anapaest meter_), “Anthologia Graeca” 11.208 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus))], and in later Prose, as [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 709b10, “HA” 609a14 (περι-), cf. Moer. p.311)] P.; noted as archaic by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pseudol.” 29)]: aorist imperative πέτασσαι [Refs (“Anacreontea” 14.2)]; ἵπταμαι (which see) is first found in late writers, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.43, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 65.4, etc.)] (mostly in compounds, compare ἐξίπταμα; ἀφίπτατο in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1608 is spurious))], and is censured by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 25, “Sol.” 7)]:—fly, of birds, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.207, 13.62, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.147, etc.)]; of bees, gnats, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.89, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.95)]; of a departing spirit, ψυχὴ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδόσδε βεβήκει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.362; ἐκ μελέων θυμὸς πτάτο 23.880)]: metaphorically, of young children, οὐδέπω μακρὰν πτέσθαι σθενοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17)]; also of arrows, javelins, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.99, etc.; ὀλοοίτροχος.. ἀναθρῴσκων π. 13.140 (but ἐκ χειρῶν ἔπτατ᾽ ἐρετμά, τεύχεα)] fell suddenly.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.203, 24.534))]; of any quick motion, dart, rush, of men, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.755, 22.143, etc.)]; of horses, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν, τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην [Refs (5.366, compare 768)], etc.; of chariots, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 308)]; of dancers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 71 (Lyric poetry))]; πέτον fly! i.e. make haste! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 321)]; ἔχρην πετομένας ἥκειν πάλαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 55; πολλοὶ ἥξουσι πετόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567d, compare 467d)]; πέτονται.. ἐπὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἄκλητοι, of parasites, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 229.)]
II metaphorically and proverbial usages:—to be on the wing, flutter, of uncertain hopes, ἐξ ἐλπίδος π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.90)]; π. ἐλπίσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 487 (Lyric poetry))]; of fickle natures, πέτει τε καὶ φρονῶν οὐδὲν φρονεῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 332)]; ἐφ᾽ ἕτερον π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 899)]; ὄρνις πετόμενος a bird ever on the wing, [Refs ([prev. author] “Av.” 169)]; πετόμενόν τινα διώκεις 'you are chasing a butterfly', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 4a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1009b38)]; of fame, fly abroad, πέταται τηλόθεν ὄνυμ᾽ αὐτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.48.)]
II.2 with dative, πτάμενος νοήματι flying in mind, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 122.4. (Cf. πίπτω)], Sanskritpátati 'fly', 'fall', Latin prae-pes, etc.)