ἐμπεριπατέω
emperipatéō · G1704 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to live among, to be with
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἐμπεριπατέω ‘to walk about among,’ not occurring in the NT) To live or dwell among
Examples2 Corinthians 6:16 Or what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I WILL DWELL AMONG THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀναστρέφω anastréphō · G390 · to move back, to return, to live
- Used of living or conducting oneself among people; overlaps with ἐμπεριπατέω in denoting lifestyle and association with a group, though ἀναστρέφω emphasizes conduct/behavior while ἐμπεριπατέω emphasizes the spatial metaphor of walking among
In the other Testament 1 word
- הָלַךְ hâlak · H1980 · to move, to go, to walk
- The most common Hebrew verb for 'to walk' with the same figurative sense of conduct and lifestyle; frequently used in constructions like 'walk among' or 'walk with' to express living/dwelling among or with others (e.g., Lev 26:12, 2 Cor 6:16 quotes it as equivalent to ἐμπεριπατέω)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To live among, to be with85.81
- This verb describes God figuratively living among and being with His people, drawn from Leviticus and applied to God's presence among believers — "just as God said, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people'" (2 Corinthians 6:16).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH ἐνπεριπατέω, see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπεριπάτω: future ἐμπεριπατήσω; to go about in, walk…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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