πεζεύω
pezeúō · G3978 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to go by foot, to go by land
To travel by foot
ExamplesActs 20:13 But we went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for that was what he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.
How it’s used In 1 role
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 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
- ὁδοιπορέω hodoiporéō · G3596 · to travel, to be en route, journey
- Greek verb meaning to travel or journey, often implying travel on foot; both refer to the act of traveling by land rather than sea, though ὁδοιπορέω is more general journey terminology while πεζεύω specifically emphasizes the 'on foot' aspect.
Contrasting words 1 word
- πλέω pléō · G4126 · to sail, sailing, sea traveller
- Genuine lexical opposite: πλέω denotes travel by sea/sailing, while πεζεύω denotes travel by land/foot. These represent the two primary modes of long-distance travel in antiquity and are dictionary-level opposites.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To go by foot, to go by land15.224
- πεζεύω names travel undertaken on foot rather than by another means, as Luke describes Paul's own choice of route: “But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.” (Acts 20:13)
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (πεζός, which see); to travel on foot (not on horseback or in a carriage), or (if opposed…
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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