adjective
ptēnem
Strong’sG4421
winged
stem ptēn-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** πτηνός, -ή, -όν
(< πέτομαι), [in Aq.: Jb 5:7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4421 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidptay-non'
a bird
Fromcontraction for G4071;
King Jamesbird.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect πτανός, ά, όν; also ός, όν Refs 5th c.BC+: (πτῆναι, πέτομαι):— flying, winged, Διὸς π. κύων, i.e. eagle, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὄρνις, οἰωνός, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ἔρως, ἵπποι, Refs 5th c.BC+; also of arrows, π. ἰοί Refs 5th c.BC+; π. φυγή, of birds, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 τὰ π. winged creatures, birds, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to τὰ πεζά, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to τὰ πεζά and τὰ πλωτά, Refs 4th c.BC+ the pursuit of winged game, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ [θήρα] τῶν π. Refs 5th c.BC+: of young birds, fledged, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 swift-footed, παρδάλεις, κάμηλοι, Refs 4th c.AD+
II metaphorically, πτηνοὶ μῦθοι, Homer's ἔπεα πτερόεντα, Refs 5th c.BC+ fleeting, idle words, Refs 5th c.BC+; πτηνὰς διώκεις ἐλπίδας fleeting hopes, Refs
II.2 πτανὰ ἰσχύς soaring, aspiring strength, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ptēnos | ptēnas | ptēnem | ptēnois | ptēnais | ptēneim |
| object accusative | ptēnon | ptēnan | ptēnoin | ptēnain | ||
| direct address vocative | ptēnor | ptēnar | ptēnoir | ptēnair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ptēnou | ptēnau | ptēneu | ptēnoiu | ptēnaiu | ptēneiu1×πτηνῶν |
| to, for dative | ptēno | ptēna | ptēne | ptēnoi | ptēnai | ptēnei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ptēn is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ptēneiu“birds”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
1 Corinthians 15:39… de sarkas ktēneiu, allosas de sarkas ptēneiu, allosas de ichthoiu.… kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.