Quick Definition
πετεινόν, οῦ, τό n.n. a bird
Strong's Definition
neuter of a derivative of 4072; a flying animal, i.e. bird
KJV Usage: bird, fowl
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -οῦ | πέτομαι
4.38 · Animals · Birds
bird any kind of bird, wild or domestic All languages have at least some terms for birds, but there may be no generic term which identifies birds while excluding all other creatures which fly. For example, in some languages a term which includes all kinds of birds also includes flying insects and bats. However, since in most instances such a term has birds as its primary reference, it can usually be employed in contexts in which birds are more or less readily identified by other expressions in the passage. In other languages generic terms for birds may identify only certain classes of birds, for example, birds of prey, water birds, and birds of the forest.
4.41 · Animals · Birds
Collocation: πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
birds, wild birds (an idiom, literally: birds of the sky) wild birds in contrast with domesticated birds such as chickens A literal rendering of πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, either as ‘birds of the air’ or ‘birds of the sky,’ may be misleading, since ‘birds of the air’ might imply that these are birds made out of air, and ‘birds of the sky’ might suggest they are birds which remain always in the sky. In some languages the equivalent expression is ‘birds of the trees’ or ‘birds of the winds.’
MAT 6:26 · MAT 8:20 · MAT 13:32 · MRK 4:32 · LUK 8:5 · LUK 9:58 · LUK 13:19 · ACT 10:12 · ACT 11:6
1 ROM 1:23 · ACT 11:6 · JAS 3:7 In ROM 1:23, ACT 11:6, and JAS 3:7 πετεινός may possibly include insects, but this is not likely. The classifications in these contexts do not necessarily reflect exhaustive distinctions.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πετεινός, -7, -όν, (Attic for πετηνός, fr. πέτομαι), flying, winged ; in the N. T. found only in neut. plur. πετεινά and τὰ πετεινά, as subst., flying or winged animals, birds: Mt. xiii. 4; Mk.iv.4 [GL T Tr WH]; Lk. xii. 24; Ro.i. 23; Jas. ill. 7; τὰ mer. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ (Sept. for Ὁ ΣΟ ΤΙ >i}; see οὐρανός, 1 b.), the birds of heaven, i.e. flying in the heavens (air), Mt. vi. 26; viii. 20; xiii. 32; Mk. iv. 4 [Rec.], 32; Lk. viii. 5; ix. 585; xiii. 19; Acts x. 12 [here LT Tr WH om. τά]; xi. 6. [(Theogn., Hdt., al.)]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πετεινόν peteinon 14x
a bird, fowl, Mt. 6:26; 8:20
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
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., Mt 6:26 8:20 13:4, 32, Mk 4:4, 32, Lk 8:5 9:58 12:24 13:19, Ac 10:12 11:6, Ro 1:23, Ja 3:7.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πετεινός (peteinos) — bird. πετεινός, ή, όν, also πετηνός (see. near the end), and πτηνός (see. entry), Epic dialect and poetry πετεηνός (also πετεεινός [Refs 1st c.BC+]:— able to fly, full-fledged, of young birds, πάρος πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of birds generally, able to fly, winged, πετηνῶν.. ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] winged fowl, αἰετὸς.. τελειότατος πετεηνῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πετεινόν a bird, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; τὰ πετεινά (with variant{πετηνά}) [Refs 5th c.BC+] is the name of an Attic dialectship in [Refs]