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Passage

περιοχήStrong’s G4042

periochē

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Periochē is the Greek word usually translated “passage”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:”
Acts 8:32 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “passage”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • the passage 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    περιοχή periochē · passage

    περι-οχή, -ῆς, ἡ (περιέχω), [in LXX for מָצוּד, מָצוֹר, etc. ;] 1. compass, circumference. 2. a portion circumscribed, a section: Act.8:32.† (AS)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “passage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    P'ASSAGE, noun

    1. The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands.
    2. The time of passing from one place to another.
    3. Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.
    4. Entrance or exit.
    All definitions
    1. Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.
    2. Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton. [See the Spanish verb, supra.
    3. A passing away; decay. [Little used.]
    4. Intellectual admittance; mental reception.
    5. Manner of being conducted; management.
    6. Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.
    7. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.