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To travel

πορεύωStrong’s G4198

poreuō

Appears in 146 verses of the New Testament

In short

Poreuō is the Greek word usually translated “having gone”, “do go” and “go”. It appears in 146 verses of the New Testament.

“As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,”
1 Timothy 1:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “having gone”, “do go” and “go”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • having gone 23
  • do go 21
  • to go 14
  • going 5
  • he went 5
  • i shall go 4
  • he goes 3
  • went 3

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 48
  • Acts 37
  • Matthew 29
  • John 13
  • Mark 3
  • 1 Corinthians 3

13 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 146 verses, by book
Romans 2
15:2415:25
1 Corinthians 3
10:2716:416:6
1 Timothy 1
1:3
2 Timothy 1
4:10
James 1
4:13
1 Peter 3
3:193:224:3
2 Peter 2
2:103:3
Greek dictionary

πορεύω poreuō · to travel

πορεύω, (πόρος, a ford, a passage), [in LXX chiefly for הלךְ ;] in cl. (the act. becomes obsolete in late Gk.; see M, Pr., 162), to cause to go over, carry, convey. Mid. (always in LXX and NT), ־ομαι, to go, proceed, go on one's way: with accusative, ὁδόν, Act.8:39; before ἐκεῖθεν, Mat.19:15; ἐντεῦθεν, Luk.13:31; ἀπό, Mat.25:41, Luk.4:42; εἰς, Mat.2:20, Mrk.16:12, Luk.1:39, Jhn.7:35, al; εἰς εἰρήνην (cf. 1Ki.1:17). Luk.7:50; ἐν εἰρήνῃ, Act.16:36; ἐπί, with accusative, Mat.22:9, Act.25:12, al; ἕως, Act.23:23; οὗ, Luk.24:28, 1Co.16:6; πρός, with accusative of person(s), Mat.25:9, Luk.11:5, al. …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

GO, verb intransitive

preterit tense went; participle passive gone.

  1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting.“The mourners go about the streets” Ecclesiastes 12:5
  2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step.
  3. To walk leisurely; not to run.
  4. To travel; to journey by land or water.
All definitions and other forms of “go”
  1. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come.“I will let you go that ye may sacrifice” Exodus 8:28
  2. To proceed; to pass.
  3. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.
  4. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice.
  5. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change.
  6. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate.
  7. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end.
  8. To apply; to be applicable.
  9. To apply one's self.
  10. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.
  11. To be about to do; as, I was going to say.
  12. To pass; to be accounted in value.
  13. To circulate; to pass in report.
  14. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.“And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul” 1 Samuel 17:12
  15. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See No.1.]
  16. To move as fluid; to flow.
  17. To have a tendency.
  18. To be in compact or partnership.
  19. To be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule.
  20. To be pregnant.
  21. To pass; to be alienated in payment or exchange.
  22. To be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint.
  23. To be expended.
  24. To extend; to reach.
  25. to extend or lead in any direction.
  26. To proceed; to extend.
  27. To have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value.
  28. To extend in meaning or purport.
  29. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.
  30. To contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be an ingredient; with to or into.
  31. To proceed; to be carried on.
  32. To proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed.
  33. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.
  34. To fare; to be in a good or ill state.
  35. To have a tendency or effect; to operate.
  36. In seamen's language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship.
  37. To be uttered, disclosed or published.
  38. To be in opposition; to be disagreeable.
  39. To err; to deviate from the right way.
  40. To pass away unnoticed; to omit.
  41. To fine or get in the conclusion.
  42. To fail; to come to nothing.
  43. To be swallowed or received, not rejected.
  44. To go freely; to be at liberty. John 10:9
  45. To die; to decease.
  46. To be discharged, as fire arms; to explode.
  47. To be put on, as a garment.
  48. To go on an expedition.
  49. To become extinct, as light or life; to expire.
  50. To become public.
  51. To examine; to view or review; as, to go over an account.
  52. To think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation.
  53. To change sides; to pass from one party to another.
  54. To revolt.
  55. To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.
  56. To execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; as, to go through an undertaking.
  57. To suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; as, to go through a long sickness; to go through an operation.
  58. To side with; to be in party or design with.

GO'-BETWEEN, noun

[go and between.]

An interposer; one who transacts business between parties.

  1. A passing without notice; a thrusting away; a shifting off.

GO'-CART, noun

[go and cart.]

A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.

    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.