ὁδηγός
hodēgós · G3595 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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guide, leader
(Derivative of ὁδηγέω ‘to guide,’) One who guides
ExamplesActs 1:16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
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leader, guide
One who guides or leads
ExamplesMatthew 15:14 “Leave them alone; they are blind guides of blind people. And if a person who is blind guides another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 23:16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.’
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- τυφλόςblind 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- τυφλόςblind 3
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- διϋλίζωto strain out 1
- καταπίνωto swallow up 1
- λέγωto say 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σεαυτοῦyourself 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Guide, leader15.183
- Rebuking the Pharisees, Matthew 15:14 states “they are blind guides of blind people,” where “guides” renders this noun for one who physically leads others along a path.
- Leader, guide36.4
- Describing Jewish confidence in the Law, Romans 2:19 states “and are confident that you yourself are a guide to people who are blind, a light to those in darkness,” where “a guide” renders this same noun, here in its figurative sense of one who instructs and directs others morally.
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὁδηγοῦ, ὁ (ὁδός and ἡγέομαιt; cf. χορηγός), a leader of the way, a guide; a. properly:…
a. properly: Acts 1:16 (Polybius 5, 5, 15; Plutarch, Alex. 27; 1 Macc. 4:2; 2 Macc. 5:15).
b. in figurative and sententious discourse ὁδηγός τυφλῶν, i. e. like one who is literally so called, namely a teacher of the ignorant and unexperienced, Rom 2:19; plural, τυφλοί... ὁδηγοί τυφλῶν, i. e. like blind guides in the literal sense, in that, while themselves destitute of a knowledge of the truth, they offer themselves to others as teachers, Mt 15:14; Mt 23:16, Mt 23:24.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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