πορεύομαι

: to lead over, carry over, transfer (Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, others); middle (from Herodotus down), present πορεύομαι; imperfect ἐπορευόμην; future πορεύσομαι; perfect participle πεπορευμένος; 1 aorist subjunctive 1 person plural πορευσώμεθα (Jas 4:13 Rec.st Griesbach); 1 aorist passive ἐπορεύθην; (πόρος a ford (cf. English pore i. e. passage through; Curtius, § 356; Vanicek, p. 479)); the Sept. often for הָלַך, הִתְהַלֵּך, יָלַך; properly, to lead oneself across; i. e. to take one's way, betake oneself, set out, depart;
a. properly: τήν ὁδόν μου, to pursue the journey on which one has entered, continue one's journey (A. V. go on one's way), Acts 8:39; πορεύειν followed by ἀπό with a genitive of place, to depart from, Mt 24:1 (R G); ἀπό with a genitive of the person, Mt 25:41; Lk 4:42; ἐκεῖθεν, Mt 19:15; ἐντεῦθεν, Lk 13:31; followed by εἰς with an accusative of place, to go, depart, to some place: Mt 2:20; Mt 17:27; Mk 16:12; Lk 1:39; Lk 2:41; Lk 22:39; Lk 24:13; Jn 7:35; Jn 8:1; Acts 1:11, Acts 1:25; Acts 20:1; Rom 15:24; Jas 4:13, etc.; with an accusative denoting the state: εἰς εἰρήνην, Lk 7:50; Lk 8:48 (also ἐν εἰρήνη, Acts 16:36; see εἰρήνη, 3); εἰς θάνατον, Lk 22:33; followed by ἐπί with an accusative of place, Mt 22:9; Acts 8:26; Acts 9:11; ἐπί with the accusative of a person Acts 25:12; ἕως with a genitive of place, Acts 23:23; ποῦ (which see) for ποῖ, Jn 7:35; οὗ (see ὅς, II. 11 a.) for ὅποι, Lk 24:28; 1 Cor 16:6; πρός with the accusative of a person, Mt 25:9; Mt 26:14; Lk 11:5; Lk 15:18; Lk 16:30; Jn 14:12, Jn 14:28; Jn 16:28; Jn 20:17; Acts 27:3; Acts 28:26; κατά τήν ὁδόν,Acts 8:36; διά with a genitive of place, Mt 12:1; (Mk 9:30 L text Tr text WH text); the purpose of the journey is indicated by an infinitive: Mt 28:8-9Rec.; Lk 2:3; Lk 14:19, Lk 14:31; Jn 14:2; by the preposition ἐπί with an accusative (cf. ἐπί, C. I. 1 f.), Lk 15:4; followed by ἵνα, Jn 11:11; by σύν with a dative of the attendance, Lk 7:6; Acts 10:20; Acts 26:13; 1 Cor 16:4; ἔμπροσθεν τίνος, to go before one, Jn 10:4. absolutely equivalent to to depart, go one's way: Mt 2:9; Mt 8:9; Mt 11:7; Mt 28:11; Lk 7:8; Lk 17:19; Jn 4:50; Jn 8:11; Jn 14:3; Acts 5:20; Acts 8:27; Acts 21:5; Acts 22:21, etc.; equivalent to to be on one's way, to journey: (Lk 8:42 L Tr marginal reading); Lk 9:57; Lk 10:38; ; Acts 9:3; Acts 22:6. to enter upon a journey; to go to do something: 1 Cor 10:27; Lk 10:37. In accordance with the oriental fashion of describing an action circumstantially, the participle πορευόμενος or πορευθείς is placed before a finite verb which designates some other action (cf. ἀνίστημι, II. 1 c. and ἔρχομαι, I. 1 a. α., p. 250b bottom): Mt 2:8; Mt 9:13 (on which cf. the rabbinical phrase וּלְמֹד צֵא (cf. Schoettgen or Wetstein at the passage)); Mt 11:4; Mt 27:66; ; Lk 7:22; Lk 9:13, Lk 9:52; Lk 13:32; Lk 14:10; Lk 15:15; Lk 17:14; Lk 22:8; 1 Pet 3:19.
b. By a Hebraism, metaphorically, α. to depart from life: Lk 22:22; so הָלַך, Gen 15:2; Psalm 39:14. β. ὀπίσω τίνος, to follow one, i. e. become his adherent (cf. Buttmann, 184 (160)): Lk 21:8 (Judg 2:12; 1 Kgs 11:10; Sir. 46:10); to seek (cf. English run after) anything, 2 Pet 2:10. γ. to lead or order one's life (see περιπατέω, b. α. and ὁδός, 2 a.); followed by ἐν with a dative of the thing to which one's life is given up: ἐν ἀσελγείαις, 1 Pet 4:3; ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τοῦ κυρίου, Lk 1:6; κατά τάς ἐπιθυμίας, 2 Pet 3:3; Jude 1:16, 18; ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου, dative of place (to walk in one's own ways), to follow one's moral preferences, Acts 14:16; τῇ ὁδῷ τίνος, to imitate one, to follow his ways, Jude 1:11; τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ κυρίου, Acts 9:31; see Winers Grammar, § 31, 9; Buttmann, § 133, 22 b.; ὑπό μεριμνῶν, to lead a life subject to cares, Lk 8:14, cf. Bornemann at the passage; (Meyer edition Weiss at the passage; yet see ὑπό, I. 2 a.; Winers Grammar, 369 (346) note; Buttmann, § 147, 29; R. V. as they go on their way they are choked with cares, etc. Compare: διαπορεύω, εἰσπορεύω (μαι), ἐκπορεύω (ἐκπορεύομαι), ἐνπορεύω (ἐνπορεύομαι), ἐπιπορεύω (ἐπιπορεύομαι), παραπορεύω (παραπορεύομαι), προπορεύω, προσπορεύω (προσπορεύομαι), συνπορεύω (συνπορεύομαι). Synonym: see ἔρχομαι, at the end)