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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - πτερύγιον

πτερύγιον

G4419

Transliteration: pterýgion

Pronunciation: pter-oog'-ee-on

Definition: pinnacle


- Original: πτερύγιον

- Transliteration: Pterugion

- Phonetic: pter-oog'-ee-on

- Definition:

1. a wing, a little wing

2. any pointed extremity

a. of fins of fishes

b. of part of a dress hanging down in the form of a wing

c. of the top of the temple at Jerusalem

- Origin: from a presumed derivative of G4420" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4420

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Neuter of a presumed derivative of G4420" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4420; a winglet that is (figuratively) extremity (top corner): - pinnacle.


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