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GreekG4198Verb

πορεύω

poreuō

146Occurrences
G4198Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to traverse, i.e. travel (literally or figuratively; especially to remove (figuratively, die), live, etc.);

middle voice from a derivative of the same as G3984 (πεῖρα);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
in cl. (the act. becomes obsolete in late Gk.; see M, Pr., 162), to cause to go over, carry, convey. Mid. (always in LXX and NT), ־ομαι, to go, proceed, go on one's way: with accusative, ὁδόν; ἐντεῦθεν; ἀπό,; εἰς, al; *εἰς εἰρήνην *. ; ἐν εἰρήνῃ; ἐπί, with accusative, al; ἕως; οὗ; πρός, with accusative of person(s), κατὰ ὁδόν; διά, with genitive,; with inf.,; σύν, ἵνα; absol., ptcp., *πορευθείς *(on the pass. form of the aor., see M, Pr., 161f.), redundant (as in Heb. and Aram.
V
M, Pr., 231; Dalman, Words, 21), Metaphorical, (a) like *οἴχομαι *in cl., as euphemism for *θνήσκω *(so *הלךְ *in ); and perh. also (see Field, Notes, 66); (b) in ethical sense (, al; cf. M, Pr.; Kennedy, Sources, 107): κατά, with accusative,; (with) of disciples or partisans : with genitive of person(s), ἐκ- (-μαι), ἐν- (-μαι), ἐπι- (-μαι), παρα- (-μαι), προ-, προσ- (-μαι), συν- (-μαι)).
LXX: chiefly for הלךְ

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

G:V

Full Description

Greek Verb

Occurrences

πορεύω appears 146 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
48
Acts
37
Matthew
29
John
13
1 Corinthians
3
1 Peter
3
Jude
3
Mark
3

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 10:27BSB

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

Acts 23:23BSB

Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

John 7:35BSB

At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Luke 2:41BSB

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

Matthew 12:1BSB

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.

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