Petomai πέτομαι

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Petomai
πέτομαι
Transliterationpetomai
Strong's numberG4072
LanguageGreek
Part of speechverb
Glossto fly
Occurrences5 in 5 verses

Petomai (Greek πέτομαι, Strong's G4072) is a Greek verb meaning “to fly”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the New Testament.

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)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVfly (3), flying (2)
BSBflying (3), flight (1), fly (1)

Verses

Every verse with Petomai, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Revelation

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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