noun · feminine
pterugas
Strong’sG4420
a wing
stem pterug-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 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.
πτέρυξ, -υγος, ἡ
(< πέτομαι), [in LXX chiefly for כָּנָף;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4420 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpter'-oox
a wing
Fromfrom a derivative of G4072 (meaning a feather);
King Jameswing.
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
(πτερύξ Refs 3rd c.BC+, ῠγος, ἡ: Epic dialect dative plural πτερύγεσσι: (πτερόν):—wing of a bird, Refs 8th c.BC+; λευκὴ πτεροῖσι, πλὴν.. ἄκρων τῶν πτερύγων white in its plumage, save.. the tips of the wings, of the ibis, Refs 5th c.BC+; of Eros and Nike, Refs 4th c.BC+ 'trying your wings', Refs 4th c.AD+
2 winged creature, bird, Refs 4th c.AD+
3 flight, augury, omen, ποίων (i.e. ὀρνίχων) οὐκ ἀγαθαὶ πτέρυγες Refs 3rd c.BC+
II anything like a wing,
II.1 in plural,= πτερύγια, fins of fish, Refs 4th c.BC+; flippers of seals, Refs 4th c.BC+; of dolphins and whales, Refs; of the tortoise, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 plural, feathery foliage, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2.b ={ἄσπληνος}Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 blade of the steering-paddle, Refs: hence, rudder, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑξήρετμοι π., of oars, Refs
II.4 flap of a cuirass, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Doric dialect χιτών, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 broad edge of a knife or hunting-spear, Refs 1st c.AD+; beak of the sword-fish (variant{ῥύγχος}), Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.6 lobe of the lungs, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.7 point of a building, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.8 front frame of a torsion-engine, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.9 shoulder-blade, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.10 in plural, title of poem whose lines form a pattern like wings, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.11 plural, sails, Refs 4th c.BC+
III anything that covers or protects like wings, π. πέπλων Refs 5th c.BC+; κολπώδη πτέρυγ᾽ Εὐβοίας, i.e. Aulis, Refs; of a mountain, Λιβάνου πτέρυγες Refs 5th c.AD+
III.2 fence, wall, Refs 3rd c.BC+
IV metaphorically, πτέρυγες γόων the wings, i.e. the flight or flow, of grief, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pterugas | pterugais1×πτέρυγες |
| object accusative | pterugan | pterugain3×πτέρυγας |
| direct address vocative | pterugar | pterugair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pterugau | pterugaiu1×πτερύγων |
| to, for dative | pteruga | pterugai |
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
pteruga 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
pterugais“wings”subjectnominative plural1×
Revelation 12:14kai dōila ta gunaika tais duo pterugais tou aetou tou megou, hina petoteiō …But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly …
pterugain“wings”objectaccusative plural3×
Matthew 23:37… episunagatō teim nossieim autau hupo tain pterugain, kai ouk thelava?… hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Luke 13:34… ornias tan heautau nossian hupo tain pterugain, kai ouk thelava.… hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Revelation 4:8… henem kata henem auteiu echarōntos ana pterugain hex, kuklothen kai esōthen gemalō ofthalmoiu; …… the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all …
pterugaiu“wings”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Revelation 9:9… thōrakoin sidērouoin, kai tas fōnas taiu pterugaiu autaiu hōs fōnas harmeiu hippoiu polloiu …… iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many …