πετεινόν
peteinón · G4071 · Greek · 14 occurrences
Thing
- Bird, genericBirds145 verses
Meanings
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bird
Any kind of bird, wild or domestic
ExamplesMatthew 13:4 and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up.
Mark 4:4 as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
Luke 12:24 “Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!
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birds, wild birds
(An idiom, literally: birds of the sky) Wild birds in contrast with domesticated birds such as chickens
ExamplesMatthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
Mark 4:32 yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY can NEST UNDER its shade.”
Luke 8:5 “The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road, and it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the sky ate it up.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
9 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐρανόςheaven, sky 9
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φθαρτόςperishable 1
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἔρχομαιto come 3
- κατεσθίωto eat up 2
- δύναμαιcan 1
- κατασκηνόωto nest 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- λέγωto say 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰκώνlikeness 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὄρνεον órneon · G3732 · bird
- πετεινόν and ὄρνεον both denote birds generally. ὄρνεον has a diminutive form and an etymology emphasizing flight, but the two terms are used interchangeably in New Testament contexts to refer to birds.
In the other Testament 2 words
- עוֹף ʻôwph · H5775 · birds, fowls, winged insects
- עוֹף (ʻôwph, H5775) is the standard Hebrew term for bird/fowl that πετεινόν (peteinón, G4071) directly translates in LXX contexts, representing the same core semantic field of flying creatures across both languages.
- צְפַר tsᵉphar · H6853 · bird
- The Aramaic term for bird (occurring in Daniel's Aramaic portions) corresponds to the Greek term for flying creatures/birds in LXX translation alignment.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Bird4.38
- πετεινόν names a bird generally. Jesus points to birds as an example of God's provision: “Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them” (Matthew 6:26).
- Birds, wild birds4.41
- The same noun, in the parable of the sower, names birds that consume scattered seed. Matthew records, “as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up” (Matthew 13:4).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πετεινη, πετεινόν (Attic for πετηνος, from πέτομαι),.flying, winged; in the N. T. found…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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