peteinon · bird

What it means

peteinon (πετεινόν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bird”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An animal with wings that flies in the sky.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×2
• Luke×4
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• James×1

• Matthew 6:26

  Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

• Matthew 8:20

  And Jesus says to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

• Matthew 13:4

  And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.

• Matthew 13:32

  it is smaller than all the seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

• Mark 4:4

  And it happened as he sowed that some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

• Mark 4:32

  and when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest under its shade.”

• Luke 8:5

  “The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

• Luke 9:58

  And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

• Luke 12:24

  Consider the ravens, that they do not sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds!

• Luke 13:19

  It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

• Acts 10:12

  in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky.

• Acts 11:6

  Staring into it I was observing it and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.

• Romans 1:23

  and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of a corruptible human being and of birds and of four-footed animals and of creeping things.

• James 3:7

  For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by humankind,