4422. ptoeó
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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).]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
to terrify
NASB Translation
startled (1), terrified (1).

Thayer's
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
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

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