Strong G4420πτέρυξ
wing
- Transliteration
- pterux
- Pronunciation
- pter'-oox
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From a derivative of G4072 (meaning a feather); a wing: - wing.
Detailed definition
πτέρυξ, -υγος, ἡ
(πέτομαι), [in LXX chiefly for כָּנָף;]
a wing: of birds, Mat.23:37, Luk.13:34, Rev.12:14; of creatures seen in a vision, Rev.4:8 9:9.†
(AS)
(πέτομαι), [in LXX chiefly for כָּנָף;]
a wing: of birds, Mat.23:37, Luk.13:34, Rev.12:14; of creatures seen in a vision, Rev.4:8 9:9.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4420 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wing5
First verses
- Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
- Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
- Revelation 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
- Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
- 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.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πτέρυξ
(πτερύξ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus cited in Hdn.Gr. 1.45))], ῠγος, ἡ: Epic dialect dative plural πτερύγεσσι: (πτερόν):—wing of a bird, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.316; mostly _plural_, [prev. work] 462, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.149, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 134, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 52 (_anapaest meter_), etc.)]; λευκὴ πτεροῖσι, πλὴν.. ἄκρων τῶν πτερύγων white in its plumage, save.. the tips of the wings, of the ibis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76)]; of Eros and Nike, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 11.8: _metaphorically_, κινοῦντα πτέρυγας ἤδη)] 'trying your wings', [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 155.2.)]
2 winged creature, bird, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.12 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator).)]
3 flight, augury, omen, ποίων (i.e. ὀρνίχων) οὐκ ἀγαθαὶ πτέρυγες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 124.)]
II anything like a wing,
II.1 in plural,= πτερύγια, fins of fish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505b21, “Mir.” 835b10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 11.24)]; flippers of seals, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 697b5)]; of dolphins and whales, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 537b3)]; of the tortoise, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 559.)]
II.2 plural, feathery foliage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.6.)]
II.2.b ={ἄσπληνος}[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.134.)]
II.3 blade of the steering-paddle, [Refs (“IG” 22.1607.74)]: hence, rudder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1083)]; ἑξήρετμοι π., of oars, [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 337.2 (from Cyzicus).)]
II.4 flap of a cuirass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.15 (variant), compare “Eq.” 12.4, 6)]; of the Doric dialect χιτών, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 325, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 187, “Comica Adespota” 17.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comp. Lyc.Num.” 3, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.62.)]
II.5 broad edge of a knife or hunting-spear, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 16, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.21)]; beak of the sword-fish (variant{ῥύγχος}), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.40.)]
II.6 lobe of the lungs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 394.)]
II.7 point of a building, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.121.)]
II.8 front frame of a torsion-engine, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 101.8.)]
II.9 shoulder-blade, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 30.)]
II.10 in plural, title of poem whose lines form a pattern like wings, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 15.24 (3rd c.BC: Simmias).)]
II.11 plural, sails, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Comica Adespota 9 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 20.9.)]
III anything that covers or protects like wings, π. πέπλων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1143)]; κολπώδη πτέρυγ᾽ Εὐβοίας, i.e. Aulis, [Refs ([prev. author] “IA” 120 (Lyric poetry); νεοσσὸς ὡσεὶ πτέρυγας εἰσπίτνων ἐμάς [prev. author] “Tr.” 751)]; of a mountain, Λιβάνου πτέρυγες [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Musaeus Epicus 48.)]
III.2 fence, wall, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 291.)]
IV metaphorically, πτέρυγες γόων the wings, i.e. the flight or flow, of grief, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 242 (Lyric poetry); π. Πιερίδων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.64.)]
(πτερύξ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus cited in Hdn.Gr. 1.45))], ῠγος, ἡ: Epic dialect dative plural πτερύγεσσι: (πτερόν):—wing of a bird, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.316; mostly _plural_, [prev. work] 462, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.149, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 134, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 52 (_anapaest meter_), etc.)]; λευκὴ πτεροῖσι, πλὴν.. ἄκρων τῶν πτερύγων white in its plumage, save.. the tips of the wings, of the ibis, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76)]; of Eros and Nike, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 11.8: _metaphorically_, κινοῦντα πτέρυγας ἤδη)] 'trying your wings', [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 155.2.)]
2 winged creature, bird, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.12 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator).)]
3 flight, augury, omen, ποίων (i.e. ὀρνίχων) οὐκ ἀγαθαὶ πτέρυγες [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 124.)]
II anything like a wing,
II.1 in plural,= πτερύγια, fins of fish, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505b21, “Mir.” 835b10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 11.24)]; flippers of seals, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 697b5)]; of dolphins and whales, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 537b3)]; of the tortoise, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 559.)]
II.2 plural, feathery foliage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.6.)]
II.2.b ={ἄσπληνος}[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.134.)]
II.3 blade of the steering-paddle, [Refs (“IG” 22.1607.74)]: hence, rudder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1083)]; ἑξήρετμοι π., of oars, [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 337.2 (from Cyzicus).)]
II.4 flap of a cuirass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.15 (variant), compare “Eq.” 12.4, 6)]; of the Doric dialect χιτών, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 325, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 187, “Comica Adespota” 17.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comp. Lyc.Num.” 3, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.62.)]
II.5 broad edge of a knife or hunting-spear, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 16, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.21)]; beak of the sword-fish (variant{ῥύγχος}), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.40.)]
II.6 lobe of the lungs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 394.)]
II.7 point of a building, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.121.)]
II.8 front frame of a torsion-engine, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 101.8.)]
II.9 shoulder-blade, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 30.)]
II.10 in plural, title of poem whose lines form a pattern like wings, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 15.24 (3rd c.BC: Simmias).)]
II.11 plural, sails, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Comica Adespota 9 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 20.9.)]
III anything that covers or protects like wings, π. πέπλων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1143)]; κολπώδη πτέρυγ᾽ Εὐβοίας, i.e. Aulis, [Refs ([prev. author] “IA” 120 (Lyric poetry); νεοσσὸς ὡσεὶ πτέρυγας εἰσπίτνων ἐμάς [prev. author] “Tr.” 751)]; of a mountain, Λιβάνου πτέρυγες [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Musaeus Epicus 48.)]
III.2 fence, wall, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 291.)]
IV metaphorically, πτέρυγες γόων the wings, i.e. the flight or flow, of grief, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 242 (Lyric poetry); π. Πιερίδων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.64.)]