4422. ptoeó
Strong's Concordance
ptoeó: to terrify
Original Word: πτοέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ptoeó
Phonetic Spelling: (pto-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I terrify, scare
Definition: I terrify, scare, strike with panic.
HELPS Word-studies

4422 ptoéō (from the root meaning, "fly") – properly, flutter; (figuratively) terrify, like when someone "flies off" into unrealistic, irrational behavior.

4422 /ptoéō ("terrified") means to be provoked by agitating fears, causing someone to become "psychologically detached from reality."

[4422 (ptoéō) in ancient Greek meant "to alarm, be startled, terrified" (BAGD).]

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4422: πτοέω

πτοέω, πτόω: 1 aorist passive ἐπτοήθην; (πτόα terror); from Homer down; to terrify; passive, to be terrified (the Sept. chiefly for חָתַת): Luke 21:9; Luke 24:37 (Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading θροηθεντες. Synonym: see φοβέω, at the end.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
frighten.

Probably akin to the alternate of pipto (through the idea of causing to fall) or to petomai (through that of causing to fly away); to scare -- frighten.

see GREEK pipto

see GREEK petomai

Forms and Transliterations
επτοήθη επτοήθησαν επτόηντο επτοήται πτοηθείην πτοηθείησαν πτοηθεντες πτοηθέντες πτοηθής πτοηθήσεται πτοηθήση πτοηθήσομαι πτοηθήσονται πτοηθητε πτοηθήτε πτοηθῆτε πτοηθώσι πτοηθώσιν πτοήσει πτοήσω πτοήσωσι πτοούνται ptoethentes ptoethéntes ptoēthentes ptoēthéntes ptoethete ptoethête ptoēthēte ptoēthē̂te
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Strong's Greek 4422
2 Occurrences


πτοηθῆτε — 1 Occ.
πτοηθέντες — 1 Occ.

Luke 21:9 V-ASP-2P
GRK: ἀκαταστασίας μὴ πτοηθῆτε δεῖ γὰρ
NAS: and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things
KJV: be not terrified: for these things
INT: commotions not be terrified must for

Luke 24:37 V-APP-NMP
GRK: πτοηθέντες δὲ καὶ
NAS: But they were startled and frightened
KJV: But they were terrified and
INT: having been Terrified however and

2 Occurrences

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