ΠΕΤΗΝΩΝ, πετηνων
PETĒNŌN, petēnōn
Sounds Like: peh-tay-NON
Translations: of birds, of winged creatures, of fowl
From the root: ΠΕΤΕΙΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to birds or any winged creature. It is often used in a collective sense to denote the entire class of flying animals. In ancient Greek, it could refer to any animal that flies, including insects, but in Koine Greek, it primarily refers to birds. It is a genitive plural form, indicating possession or origin, similar to 'of birds' or 'belonging to birds'.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4071 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 14:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΤΕΙΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΕΤΕΙΝΟΝ — bird, a bird, fowl, a fowl
- ΠΕΤΕΙΝΟΣ — bird, a bird, fowl, a fowl
- ΠΕΤΕΙΝΟΥ — of a bird, of a fowl, of a winged creature, a bird, a fowl, a winged creature
- ΠΕΤΕΙΝΩ — bird, a bird, fowl, a fowl
- ΠΕΤΙΝΟΙΣ — to birds, for birds, with birds, by birds, in birds
- ΠΕΤΙΝΟΥ — of a bird, of a fowl, of a winged creature
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