Greek word · G3596
ὁδοιπορέω
hodoiporeō
to journey
To travel, make a journey, especially on foot (hodos 'road' + poreuomai 'go'). Common in Greek prose and papyri; found only here in the New Testament.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
To travel, make a journey, especially on foot (hodos 'road' + poreuomai 'go'). Common in Greek prose and papyri; found only here in the New Testament.
- Against the English
'On their journey' (BSB, WEB, KJV) is accurate. YLT's 'proceeding on the way' keeps the ongoing sense of the present participle.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Used in classical and Hellenistic Greek (e.g., Xenophon) and in papyri for ordinary travel.
Similar words
Where it appears
Acts · 1
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Acts 10:9 ὁδοιπορούντων when are journeying
The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Here: Present participle: 'while they were still on the road.' Built from 'road' + 'go', it pictures ordinary travel on foot; this is the only place the verb appears in the New Testament.
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