Greek noun (feminine) · G4420
πτέρυξ
pteryxpter'-oox
wing
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ptéryx
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4420is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4420
a wing
The King James renders it: wing.
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
pteryx is rendered "wing". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Matthew 23:37πτέρυγας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- wings5
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- πτέρυγας3
- πτέρυγες1
- πτερύγων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural3N-APF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
Matthew
one use
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- πτέρυγαςpterugasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: wings
Luke
one use
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- πτέρυγαςpterugasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: wings
Revelation
three uses
And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
- πτέρυγαςpterugasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: wings
They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
- πτερύγωνpterugonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: wings
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
- πτέρυγεςpterugesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: wings
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.