periagō (to take/go around)

Meaning

Usually translated “was going”, “was going throughout” and “traverse”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

he was going 2
was going throughout 1
you traverse 1
going about 1
to take about 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 3
Mark 1
Acts 1
1 Corinthians 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Matthew 9:35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 23:15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Mark 6:6And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
Acts 13:11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
1 Corinthians 9:5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Greek dictionary

περιάγω periagō · to take/go around

περι-άγω [in LXX: Amo.2:10 (הָלַךְ hi.); Isa.28:27, Eze.47:2 (סָבַב hi., ho.); Eze.37:2 46:21 (עָבַר hi), 2Ma.4:38 2Mac 6:10 * ;] 1. to lead about or around: with accusative of person(s), 1Co.9:5. 2. Intrans., to go about: Act.13:11; before ἐν, Mat.4:23; with accusative loc. (governed by the περι-, not so in cl., see Bl., § 34, 1; 53, 1), Mat.9:35 23:15, Mrk.6:6.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).