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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: πέτομαι

(Strong's #4072 — Verb — petomai — pet'-om-ahee, pet-ah'-om-ahee, ptah'-om-ahee )

"to fly" (the root of which is seen in pteron and pterux, "a wing," ptilon, "a feather," etc.), is confined to the Apocalypse, 4:7; 8:13; 12:14; 14:6; 19:17. Some mss. have the verb petaomai, a frequentative form.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Fly'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/fly.html. 1940.
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