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)
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