Lexical Summary pterygion: a little wing, (anything like a wing) a battlement Original Word: πτερύγιονTransliteration: pterygion Phonetic Spelling: (pter-oog'-ee-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a little wing, (anything like a wing) a battlement Meaning: a little wing, (anything like a wing) a battlement Strong's Concordance pinnacle. Neuter of a presumed derivative of pterux; a winglet, i.e. (figuratively) extremity (top corner) -- pinnacle. see GREEK pterux Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4419: πτερύγιονπτερύγιον, πτερυγίου, τό (diminutive of πτέρυξ, which see), the Sept. for כָּנָף; 1. a wing, little wing. 2. any pointed extremity (of the fins of fish, סַנְפִּיר, Leviticus 11:9-12; Deuteronomy 14:9, 10; Aristotle, Theophrastus; of a part of the dress hanging down in the form of a wing, Ruth 3:9; 1 Samuel 24:5; (Numbers 15:38); Pollux 7, 14, 62): τό πτερύγιον τοῦ ναοῦ and τοῦ ἱεροῦ, the top of the temple at Jerusalem, Hegesippus (circa |
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