Strong G1224διαβαίνω

to cross

Transliteration
diabainō
Pronunciation
dee-ab-ah'ee-no
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G1223 and the base of G939; to cross: - come over pass (through).

Detailed definition

δια-βαίνω
[in LXX chiefly for עבר;]
1. to make a stride.

2. to step across, cross over;
__(a) trans.: τ. θάλασσαι, Heb.11:29;
__(b) intrans.: before εἰς, Act.16:9; πρός, Luk.16:26.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G1224 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • pass2
  • come1

First verses

  1. Luke 16:26
    And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
  2. Acts 16:9
    And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
  3. Hebrews 11:29
    By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
διαβαίνω,
future -βήσομαι: aorist -έβην, Aeolic dialect participle ζάβαις [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 7.3:)]
I intransitive, stride, walk or stand with legs apart, εὖ διαβάς, of a man planting himself firmly for fighting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.458, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.21; ὡδὶ διαβάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 688; τοσόνδε βῆμα διαβεβηκότος [prev. author] “Eq.” 77)]; opposed to συμβεβηκώς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.14; πόδας μὴ -βεβῶτας 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 43, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.76; κολοσσοὶ -βεβηκότες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.779f)]; simply, spacious, δόμοι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 15: _metaphorically_, μεγάλα δ. ἐπί τινα)] to go with huge strides against.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 32)]; ὀνόματα -βεβηκότα εἰς πλάτος great straddling words, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22)]; [ποὺς] -βεβηκώς with a mighty stride, [Refs ([prev. work] 17: with _accusative_ _cognate_, αἱ ἁρμονίαι διαβεβήκασι εὐμεγέθεις διαβάσεις [prev. work] 20)]; also ἐξερείσματα χρόνων πρὸς ἑδραῖον -βεβηκότα μέγεθος [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 40.4.)]
II with accusative, step across, pass over, τάφρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.50; πόρον᾽ Ωκεανοῖο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 292, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 865 (Lyric poetry); Ἀχέροντα 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus [same place]; ποταμόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75, etc., compare 7.35; also διὰ ποταμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.2.)]
II.2 absolutely (θάλασσαν or ποταμόν being omitted), cross over, Ἤλιδ᾽ ἐς εὐρύχορον διαβήμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.635; [ἐς] τήνδε τὴν ἤπειρον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.118; πλοίῳ [prev. author] 1.186, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.114, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229c, etc.: _metaphorically_, τῷ λόγῳ διέβαινε ἐς Εὐρυβιάδεα)] he went over to him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.62; δ. ἐπὶ τὰ μείζω 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.18.18.)]
II.2.b πόθεν.. διαβέβηκε τὸ ἀργύριον from what sources the money has mounted up, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.829e.)]
II.3 bestride, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 5.54 (3rd c.BC: Dioscorides Epigrammaticus).)]
II.4 decide, δίκας [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 426.7 (Teos, 3rd c.BC).)]
II.5 come home to, affect, εἴς τινα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus Oen.2, 7th c.AD: Stephanus Philosophus “in Artem Rhetoricam commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 281.5.)]