φορέω
phoréō · G5409 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to wear, to dress
To put on and to wear clothes
ExamplesMatthew 11:8 “But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ palaces!
John 19:5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”
James 2:3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the bright clothes, and say, “You sit here in a good place,” and you say to the poor man, “You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,”
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to be, to bear
To be in a particular state or condition
Examples1 Corinthians 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
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to have the power to punish
(An idiom, literally: to bear the sword) To have the capacity or authority to punish
ExamplesRomans 13:4 for it is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a servant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
How it’s used In 5 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
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated (participle) 3
- Not stated: we 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- εἰκώνlikeness 2
- ἐσθήςclothing 1
- ἱμάτιονclothing 1
- μαλακόςsoft 1
- μάχαιραsword 1
- στέφανοςcrown 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οἶκοςhouse, household 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon 2
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 3 entries
- To be, to bear13.2
- 1 Corinthians 15:49 promises that “just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly”.
- To have the power to punish38.3
- Romans 13:4 says the authority “does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a servant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil”.
- To wear, to dress49.11
- John 19:5 describes Jesus coming out, “wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe”.
Word family 34 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root φέρω
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φορῶ; future φορέσω (1 Cor 15:49 R G WH marginal reading); 1 aorist ἐφορεσα (later forms…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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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