ὀρθοποδέω
orthopodéō · G3716 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to live right, to live as one ought to
To live a life of moral correctness
ExamplesGalatians 2:14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with+ ἀλήθειαtruth 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 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 2 words
- περιπατέω peripatéō · G4043 · to walk, to go, to live
- Common NT verb for ethical conduct/behavior ('walk'); ὀρθοποδέω intensifies this with the notion of walking straight or uprightly, making it a more specific ethical synonym in contexts of moral rectitude.
- εὐθύνω euthýnō · G2116 · to cause to be straight, to make straight, to straighten
- Verb meaning to make or guide straight; semantically overlaps with ὀρθοποδέω's figurative sense of going straight/directly forward in ethical conduct, though εὐθύνω can also apply literally to paths.
Contrasting words 1 word
- πλανάω planáō · G4105 · to mislead, to deceive, deception
- Verb denoting wandering off course or being led astray, the natural opposite of walking straight/uprightly; contrasts the ethical directness of ὀρθοποδέω with deviation or error.
In the other Testament 2 words
- הָלַךְ hâlak · H1980 · to move, to go, to walk
- Hebrew verb denoting walking or conducting oneself, capturing the ethical/behavioral nuance of 'walking straight' that ὀρθοποδέω expresses figuratively in Galatians 2:14 ('not walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel').
- יָשַׁר yâshar · H3474 · to make straight, to make smooth, to make level
- Hebrew verb for being upright or straight, both literally and morally, corresponding to the 'ortho-' (straight) component and ethical sense of ὀρθοποδέω.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To live right, to live as one ought to41.36
- ὀρθοποδέω describes conduct that is consistent and forthright with the truth of the gospel, as Paul confronts Peter's inconsistency at Antioch: “when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all.” (Galatians 2:14)
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀρθοποδω; (ὀρθόπους with straight feet, going straight; and this from ὀρθός and πούς); to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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