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Lexicon :: Strong's G4198 - poreuō

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πορεύω
Transliteration
poreuō (Key)
Pronunciation
por-yoo'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Only middle and passive voices used in the NT; from a derivative of the same as πεῖρα (G3984)
mGNT
153x in 38 unique form(s) TR
154x in 44 unique form(s) LXX
986x in 64 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:566,915

Strong’s Definitions

πορεύομαι poreúomai, por-yoo'-om-ahee; middle voice from a derivative of the same as G3984; to traverse, i.e. travel (literally or figuratively; especially to remove (figuratively, die), live, etc.); --depart, go (away, forth, one's way, up), (make a, take a) journey, walk.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 154x

The KJV translates Strong's G4198 in the following manner: go (117x), depart (11x), walk (9x), go (one's) way (8x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 154x
The KJV translates Strong's G4198 in the following manner: go (117x), depart (11x), walk (9x), go (one's) way (8x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. to lead over, carry over, transfer

    1. to pursue the journey on which one has entered, to continue on one's journey

    2. to depart from life

    3. to follow one, that is: become his adherent

      1. to lead or order one's life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πορεύομαι poreúomai, por-yoo'-om-ahee; middle voice from a derivative of the same as G3984; to traverse, i.e. travel (literally or figuratively; especially to remove (figuratively, die), live, etc.); --depart, go (away, forth, one's way, up), (make a, take a) journey, walk.
STRONGS G4198:
πορεύω: to lead over, carry over, transfer (Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, others); middle (from Herodotus down), present πορεύομαι; imperfect ἐπορευόμην; future πορεύσομαι; perfect participle πεπορευμένος; 1 aorist subjunctive 1 person plural πορευσώμεθα (James 4:13 Rec.st Griesbach); 1 aorist passive ἐπορεύθην; (πόρος a ford (cf. English pore i. e. passage through; Curtius, § 356; Vanicek, p. 479)); the Sept. often for הָלַך, הִתְהַלֵּך, יָלַך; properly, to lead oneself across; i. e. to take one's way, betake oneself, set out, depart;
a. properly: τήν ὁδόν μου, to pursue the journey on which one has entered, continue one's journey (A. V. go on one's way), Acts 8:39; πορεύειν followed by ἀπό with a genitive of place, to depart from, Matthew 24:1 (R G); ἀπό with a genitive of the person, Matthew 25:41; Luke 4:42; ἐκεῖθεν, Matthew 19:15; ἐντεῦθεν, Luke 13:31; followed by εἰς with an accusative of place, to go, depart, to some place: Matthew 2:20; Matthew 17:27; Mark 16:12; Luke 1:39; Luke 2:41; Luke 22:39; Luke 24:13; John 7:35; John 8:1; Acts 1:11, 25; Acts 20:1; Romans 15:24; James 4:13, etc.; with an accusative denoting the state: εἰς εἰρήνην, Luke 7:50; Luke 8:48 (also ἐν εἰρήνη, Acts 16:36; see εἰρήνη, 3); εἰς θάνατον, Luke 22:33; followed by ἐπί with an accusative of place, Matthew 22:9; Acts 8:26; Acts 9:11; ἐπί with the accusative of a person Acts 25:12; ἕως with a genitive of place, Acts 23:23; ποῦ (which see) for ποῖ, John 7:35; οὗ (see ὅς, II. 11 a.) for ὅποι, Luke 24:28; 1 Corinthians 16:6; πρός with the accusative of a person, Matthew 25:9; Matthew 26:14; Luke 11:5; Luke 15:18; Luke 16:30; John 14:12, 28; John 16:28; John 20:17; Acts 27:3; Acts 28:26; κατά τήν ὁδόν,Acts 8:36; διά with a genitive of place, Matthew 12:1; (Mark 9:30 L text Tr text WH text); the purpose of the journey is indicated by an infinitive: Matthew 28:8-9Rec.; Luke 2:3; Luke 14:19, 31; John 14:2; by the preposition ἐπί with an accusative (cf. ἐπί, C. I. 1 f.), Luke 15:4; followed by ἵνα, John 11:11; by σύν with a dative of the attendance, Luke 7:6; Acts 10:20; Acts 26:13; 1 Corinthians 16:4; ἔμπροσθεν τίνος, to go before one, John 10:4. absolutely equivalent to to depart, go one's way: Matthew 2:9; Matthew 8:9; Matthew 11:7; Matthew 28:11; Luke 7:8; Luke 17:19; John 4:50; John 8:11; John 14:3; Acts 5:20; Acts 8:27; Acts 21:5; Acts 22:21, etc.; equivalent to to be on one's way, to journey: (Luke 8:42 L Tr marginal reading); Luke 9:57; 10:38; 13:33; Acts 9:3; Acts 22:6. to enter upon a journey; to go to do something: 1 Corinthians 10:27; Luke 10:37. In accordance with the oriental fashion of describing an action circumstantially, the participle πορευόμενος or πορευθείς is placed before a finite verb which designates some other action (cf. ἀνίστημι, II. 1 c. and ἔρχομαι, I. 1 a. α., p. 250b bottom): Matthew 2:8; Matthew 9:13 (on which cf. the rabbinical phrase וּלְמֹד צֵא (cf. Schoettgen or Wetstein at the passage)); Matt. 11:4; 27:66; 28:7; Luke 7:22; Luke 9:13, 52; Luke 13:32; Luke 14:10; Luke 15:15; Luke 17:14; Luke 22:8; 1 Peter 3:19.
b. By a Hebraism, metaphorically,
α. to depart from life: Luke 22:22; so הָלַך, Genesis 15:2; Psalm 39:14.
β. ὀπίσω τίνος, to follow one, i. e. become his adherent (cf. Buttmann, 184 (160)): Luke 21:8 (Judges 2:12; 1 Kings 11:10; Sir. 46:10); to seek (cf. English run after) anything, 2 Peter 2:10.
γ. to lead or order one's life (see περιπατέω, b. α. and ὁδός, 2 a.); followed by ἐν with a dative of the thing to which one's life is given up: ἐν ἀσελγείαις, 1 Peter 4:3; ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τοῦ κυρίου, Luke 1:6; κατά τάς ἐπιθυμίας, 2 Peter 3:3; Jude 1:16, 18; ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου, dative of place (to walk in one's own ways), to follow one's moral preferences, Acts 14:16; τῇ ὁδῷ τίνος, to imitate one, to follow his ways, Jude 1:11; τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ κυρίου, Acts 9:31; see Winers Grammar, § 31, 9; Buttmann, § 133, 22 b.; ὑπό μεριμνῶν, to lead a life subject to cares, Luke 8:14, cf. Bornemann at the passage; (Meyer edition Weiss at the passage; yet see ὑπό, I. 2 a.; Winers Grammar, 369 (346) note; Buttmann, § 147, 29; R. V. as they go on their way they are choked with cares, etc. Compare: διαπορεύω, εἰσπορεύω (μαι), ἐκπορεύω (ἐκπορεύομαι), ἐνπορεύω (ἐνπορεύομαι), ἐπιπορεύω (ἐπιπορεύομαι), παραπορεύω (παραπορεύομαι), προπορεύω, προσπορεύω (προσπορεύομαι), συνπορεύω (συνπορεύομαι). Synonym: see ἔρχομαι, at the end)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
15:2
Judges
2:12
1 Kings
11:10
Matthew
2:8; 2:9; 2:20; 8:9; 9:13; 11:4; 11:7; 12:1; 17:27; 19:15; 22:9; 24:1; 25:9; 25:41; 26:14; 27:66; 28:7; 28:8; 28:9; 28:11
Mark
9:30; 16:12
Luke
1:6; 1:39; 2:3; 2:41; 4:42; 7:6; 7:8; 7:22; 7:50; 8:14; 8:42; 8:48; 9:13; 9:52; 9:57; 10:37; 10:38; 11:5; 13:31; 13:32; 13:33; 14:10; 14:19; 14:31; 15:4; 15:15; 15:18; 16:30; 17:14; 17:19; 21:8; 22:8; 22:22; 22:33; 22:39; 24:13; 24:28
John
4:50; 7:35; 7:35; 8:1; 8:11; 10:4; 11:11; 14:2; 14:3; 14:12; 14:28; 16:28; 20:17
Acts
1:11; 1:25; 5:20; 8:26; 8:27; 8:36; 8:39; 9:3; 9:11; 9:31; 10:20; 14:16; 16:36; 20:1; 21:5; 22:6; 22:21; 23:23; 25:12; 26:13; 27:3; 28:26
Romans
15:24
1 Corinthians
10:27; 16:4; 16:6
James
4:13; 4:13
1 Peter
3:19; 4:3
2 Peter
2:10; 3:3
Jude
1:11; 1:16; 1:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4198 matches the Greek πορεύω (poreuō),
which occurs 42 times in 38 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,[fn]
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:5 - O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:16 - The LORD said:
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
tinkling with their feet,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:8 - And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
“‘Keep on hearing,[fn] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[fn] but do not perceive.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:6 - “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:2 - [fn] The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
on them has light shone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 - which sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:23 - In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2 - at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:15 - Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:13 - And the word of the LORD will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:21 - And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:21 - But there the LORD in majesty will be for us
a place of broad rivers and streams,
where no galley with oars can go,
nor majestic ship can pass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:9 - No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:2 - Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every step?[fn]
He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
like driven stubble with his bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned,
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:3 - For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:2 - “I will go before you
and level the exalted places,[fn]
I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:16 - All of them are put to shame and confounded;
the makers of idols go in confusion together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:17 - Thus says the LORD,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:10 - Who among you fears the LORD
and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the LORD
and rely on his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:11 - Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
and by the torches that you have kindled!
This you have from my hand:
you shall lie down in torment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the LORD will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:17 - Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,
I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears;
we moan and moan like doves;
we hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:3 - And nations shall come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your rising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:14 - The sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
and all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
they shall call you the City of the LORD,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up a signal over the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;
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