πτερύγιον
wing
‘wing’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4419 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun πτερυγιον centers on the idea of “wing.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Debuting at Matthew 4:5, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4419 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pinnacle 2×
- American Standard Version: Pinnacle 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pinnacle 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Highest point 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4419 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4419 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4419 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4419 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a wing, a little wing
- any pointed extremity
Word origin
Derived from πτερυξ (ptéryx) (G4420) — wing.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G4420 ; a winglet that is (figuratively) extremity (top corner): - pinnacle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πτερυγιον appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 7 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 36:26 πτερυγίον
- Leviticus 11:9 πτερυγίον
- Numbers 15:38 πτερυγίον
- Deuteronomy 14:9 πτερυγίον
- Ruth 3:9 πτερυγίον
- 1 Samuel 15:27 πτερυγίον
- 1 Kings 6:24 πτερυγίον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4419) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 36:26 πτερυγίον and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Leviticus 11:9 πτερυγίον These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:10 πτερυγίον All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
- Leviticus 11:12 πτερυγίον Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
- Numbers 15:38 πτερυγίον Speak to the children of Israel, and bid those who they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:
- Deuteronomy 14:9 πτερυγίον These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
- Deuteronomy 14:10 πτερυγίον and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
- Ruth 3:9 πτερυγίον He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.
- 1 Samuel 15:27 πτερυγίον As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
- 1 Samuel 24:5 πτερυγίον It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
- 1 Samuel 24:6 πτερυγίον He said to his men, Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is Yahweh's anointed.
- 1 Samuel 24:12 πτερυγίον Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
- 1 Kings 6:24 πτερυγίον Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4419) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
