Lexical Summary
petomai: To fly
Original Word: πέτομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: petomai
Pronunciation: peh'-toh-my
Phonetic Spelling: (pet'-om-ahee)
KJV: fly(-ing)
NASB: flying, fly
Word Origin: [middle voice of a primary verb]
1. to fly
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
flying.
Or prolongation petaomai (pet-ah'-om-ahee), or contracted ptaomai (ptah'-om-ahee) middle voice of a primary verb; to fly -- fly(-ing).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origina prim. verb
Definitionto fly
NASB Translationfly (2), flying (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4072: πετάομαιπετάομαι,
πετωμαι; a doubtful later Greek form for the earlier
πέτομαι (see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 581; Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii, p. 271f; cf.
Winers Grammar, 88 (84); (
Buttmann, 65 (58);
Veitch, under the word));
to fly: in the N. T. found only in present participle,
πετωμενος,
Rec. in
Revelation 4:7;
Revelation 8:13;
Revelation 14:6;
Revelation 19:17, where since Griesbach
πετόμενος has been restored.