Greek noun (neuter) · G4071
πετεινόν
peteinonpet-i-non'
bird
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: peteinón
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4071is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4071
a flying animal, i.e. bird
The King James renders it: bird, fowl.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
peteinon is rendered "bird". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Matthew 6:26πετεινὰ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- birds13
- of birds1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πετεινὰ11
- πετεινῶν3
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural7N-NPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural4N-APN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural3N-GPN
Matthew
four uses
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Mark
two uses
And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
But after it is planted, it grows to be the largest of all garden plants and puts forth great branches, so that the birds of the air nest in its shade.”
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Luke
four uses
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- πετεινῶνpeteinonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Acts
two uses
It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
- πετεινὰpeteinanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
Romans
one use
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- πετεινῶνpeteinonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: birds
James
one use
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
- πετεινῶνpeteinonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of birds
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.