Bird
πετεινόςStrong’s G4071peteinos
Appears in 14 verses of the New Testament
In short
Peteinos is the Greek word usually translated “birds”. It appears in 14 verses of the New Testament.
“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Meaning
Usually translated “birds”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- birds 13
- of birds 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 4
- Luke 4
- Mark 2
- Acts 2
- Romans 1
- James 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 8:20And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Matthew 13:4And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
- Matthew 13:32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
- Mark 4:4And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
- Mark 4:32But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
- Luke 8:5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Greek dictionary
πετεινός peteinos · bird
πετεινός, -ή, -όν (πέτομαι), [in LXX chiefly for עוֹף ;] in trag., Ion. and late writers, winged, flying; as subst., τὸ π., a winged fowl, a bird: pl., Mat.6:26 8:20 13:4, 32, Mrk.4:4, 32, Luk.8:5 9:58 12:24 13:19, Act.10:12 11:6, Rom.1:23, Jas.3:7.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bird” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIRD, noun
burd.
- Properly, a chicken, the young of fowls, and hence a small fowl.
- In modern use, any fowl or flying animal.
All definitions and other forms of “bird”
BIRD, verb transitive
To catch birds.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.