Strong G3979πεζῇ
on foot
- Transliteration
- pezē
- Pronunciation
- ped-zay'
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Dative feminine of a derivative of G4228 (as adverb);
foot wise that is by walking: - a- (on) foot.
foot wise that is by walking: - a- (on) foot.
Detailed definition
πεζός, -ή, -όν
(πούς), [in LXX for רַגְלִי;]
1. on foot: Mat.14:13 (WH, mg., R, txt.).
2. Opp. to going by sea, by land: Mat.14:13 (WH, mg., R, mg.).
3. As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ), on foot or by land: Mt 1413 (WH, txt.), Mrk.6:33.†
(AS)
(πούς), [in LXX for רַגְלִי;]
1. on foot: Mat.14:13 (WH, mg., R, txt.).
2. Opp. to going by sea, by land: Mat.14:13 (WH, mg., R, mg.).
3. As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ), on foot or by land: Mt 1413 (WH, txt.), Mrk.6:33.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3979 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- afoot1
- foot1
First verses
- Matthew 14:13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
- Mark 6:33And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: πεζός, ή, όν,
(see. πούς):
1 in Poets, especially Epic dialect,
1.a on foot, walking, πεζοί fighters on foot, opposed to those in chariots, πεζοί θ᾽ ἱππῆές τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.59, compare 5.13, 11.150)]; πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.436, compare 9.50.)]
1.b on land, going by land, opposed to sea-faring, especiallyin [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”; εἰ δ᾽ ἐθέλεις π., πάρα τοι δίφρος τε καὶ ἵπποι 3.324; οὐ μὲν γάρ τί σε πεζὸν ὀΐομαι ἐνθάδ᾽ ἱκέσθαι 1.173; ἔφθης πεζὸς ἰὼν ἢ ἐγὼ σὺν νηῒ μελαίνῃ 11.58, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.29)]; ἐν νηῒ θοῇ ἢ π. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.438.)]
2in Prose, ὁ π. (with or without στρατός),
2.a sometimes infantry, opposed to cavalry (ἡ ἵππος), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.80, 4.128; σὺν δυνάμει καὶ π. καὶ ἱππικῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.18)]; but,
2.b more frequently land-force, army, opposed to naval force, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, 6.95, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.47, 2.94, etc.)]; τὸ π. variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.81)]; στρατιὰ καὶ ναυτικὴ καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.33, compare 7.16 (and see at {πεζικός}); ἡ π. στρατιὰ καὶ τὸ ναυτικόν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.34, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 558 (Lyric poetry), 719, 728 (both troch.); οἱ μὲν ἐφ᾽ ἵππων, οἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ ναῶν, πεζοί τε βάδην [prev. work] 19)]; τὰ π. κράτιστοι strongest by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.12; καὶ ναυσὶ καὶ πεζοῖσι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 622; π. μάχαισιν [prev. author] “Eq.” 567)]; ἡ π. μάχη battle by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 707c)]; ἐν τοῖς ναυτικοῖς κινδύνοις, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.91.)]
3 of animals, land, opposed to birds and fishes, τὰ π. καὶ τὰ πτηνά beasts and birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 207a, compare “Plt.” 264e)]; π. καὶ ἔνυδρον[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 288a, compare “Lg.” 823b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 143b1, etc.; ἡ π. θήρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 222b, compare “Lg.” 824a.)]
II metaphorically [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (compare (αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ Μουσέων πεζὸς ἔπειμι νομόν 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 4.1.9))], of language, prosaic, λόγοι π. prose[Refs 1st c.BC+ ((compare 111.3), 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 6, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.6.1)]; διὰ πεζῶν [λ.] [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.87 K.; λόγος “POxy.” 724.10 (2nd c.AD))]; ἡ π. διάλεκτος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 3; ἡ π. λέξις [prev. work] 1; opposed to ἡ ἔμμετρος, [prev. work] 4)]; ἡ π. alone, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.6; τινὰ καὶ πεζὰ καὶ ἐν ἔπεσι ποιήματα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.3)]; π. τις ποιητική, of bombastic prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 8)]; κομιδῇ πεζὸν καὶ χαμαιπετές[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.853c; τὰ ἄγαν π. καὶ κακόμετρα [ὀνόματα] [prev. work]747f; π. ὀνόματα, opposed to ποιητικά, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 167.)]
II.2 of verse, unaccompanied by music, καὶ πεζὰ καὶ φορμικτά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 16)]; πεζῷ γόῳ· ἄνευ αὐλοῦ ἢ λύρας, [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.; compare 111.2.)]
II.3 common, ordinary, ἑταῖραι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 205; μόσχοι 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 169; π. αὐλητρίς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 155.)]
III dative feminine πεζῇ (i.e. ὁδῷ) as adverb,
III.1 on foot, opposed to σὺν ἵππῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.5.)]
III.1.b more commonly, by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.159, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.94, etc.)]; π. ἕπεσθαι to follow by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.110, 115; στρατιὰν μέλλων π. πορεύσειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.132; π. πορεύεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.1; οὔτε π. οὔτε κατὰ θάλατταν [prev. work] 5.6.10)]; καὶ π. καὶ ναυμαχοῦντες by land and by sea, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.24.)]
III.2 without musical accompaniment[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((compare 11.2), παῦσαι μελῳδοῦσ᾽ ἀλλὰ π. μοι φράσον “Comica Adespota” 601, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237a.)]
III.3 regular adverb πεζῶς in prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.165 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {ἱστορῆσαι}.)]
IV comparative πεζότερος more like a foot-journey, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.804d)]; more like prose, στίχοι π. τῇ συνθέσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.252, etc.: _superlative_ πεζότατος, τὸ π. μόριον τῆς ψυχή,compare 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Timaeum commentarii” 3.317 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]
(see. πούς):
1 in Poets, especially Epic dialect,
1.a on foot, walking, πεζοί fighters on foot, opposed to those in chariots, πεζοί θ᾽ ἱππῆές τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.59, compare 5.13, 11.150)]; πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.436, compare 9.50.)]
1.b on land, going by land, opposed to sea-faring, especiallyin [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”; εἰ δ᾽ ἐθέλεις π., πάρα τοι δίφρος τε καὶ ἵπποι 3.324; οὐ μὲν γάρ τί σε πεζὸν ὀΐομαι ἐνθάδ᾽ ἱκέσθαι 1.173; ἔφθης πεζὸς ἰὼν ἢ ἐγὼ σὺν νηῒ μελαίνῃ 11.58, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.29)]; ἐν νηῒ θοῇ ἢ π. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.438.)]
2in Prose, ὁ π. (with or without στρατός),
2.a sometimes infantry, opposed to cavalry (ἡ ἵππος), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.80, 4.128; σὺν δυνάμει καὶ π. καὶ ἱππικῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.18)]; but,
2.b more frequently land-force, army, opposed to naval force, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, 6.95, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.47, 2.94, etc.)]; τὸ π. variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.81)]; στρατιὰ καὶ ναυτικὴ καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.33, compare 7.16 (and see at {πεζικός}); ἡ π. στρατιὰ καὶ τὸ ναυτικόν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.34, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 558 (Lyric poetry), 719, 728 (both troch.); οἱ μὲν ἐφ᾽ ἵππων, οἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ ναῶν, πεζοί τε βάδην [prev. work] 19)]; τὰ π. κράτιστοι strongest by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.12; καὶ ναυσὶ καὶ πεζοῖσι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 622; π. μάχαισιν [prev. author] “Eq.” 567)]; ἡ π. μάχη battle by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 707c)]; ἐν τοῖς ναυτικοῖς κινδύνοις, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.91.)]
3 of animals, land, opposed to birds and fishes, τὰ π. καὶ τὰ πτηνά beasts and birds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 207a, compare “Plt.” 264e)]; π. καὶ ἔνυδρον[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 288a, compare “Lg.” 823b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 143b1, etc.; ἡ π. θήρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 222b, compare “Lg.” 824a.)]
II metaphorically [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (compare (αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ Μουσέων πεζὸς ἔπειμι νομόν 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 4.1.9))], of language, prosaic, λόγοι π. prose[Refs 1st c.BC+ ((compare 111.3), 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 6, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.6.1)]; διὰ πεζῶν [λ.] [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.87 K.; λόγος “POxy.” 724.10 (2nd c.AD))]; ἡ π. διάλεκτος [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 3; ἡ π. λέξις [prev. work] 1; opposed to ἡ ἔμμετρος, [prev. work] 4)]; ἡ π. alone, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.6; τινὰ καὶ πεζὰ καὶ ἐν ἔπεσι ποιήματα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.3)]; π. τις ποιητική, of bombastic prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 8)]; κομιδῇ πεζὸν καὶ χαμαιπετές[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.853c; τὰ ἄγαν π. καὶ κακόμετρα [ὀνόματα] [prev. work]747f; π. ὀνόματα, opposed to ποιητικά, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 167.)]
II.2 of verse, unaccompanied by music, καὶ πεζὰ καὶ φορμικτά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 16)]; πεζῷ γόῳ· ἄνευ αὐλοῦ ἢ λύρας, [Refs 9th c.AD+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.; compare 111.2.)]
II.3 common, ordinary, ἑταῖραι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Theopompus Historicus 205; μόσχοι 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 169; π. αὐλητρίς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 155.)]
III dative feminine πεζῇ (i.e. ὁδῷ) as adverb,
III.1 on foot, opposed to σὺν ἵππῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.5.)]
III.1.b more commonly, by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.159, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.94, etc.)]; π. ἕπεσθαι to follow by land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.110, 115; στρατιὰν μέλλων π. πορεύσειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.132; π. πορεύεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.1; οὔτε π. οὔτε κατὰ θάλατταν [prev. work] 5.6.10)]; καὶ π. καὶ ναυμαχοῦντες by land and by sea, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.24.)]
III.2 without musical accompaniment[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((compare 11.2), παῦσαι μελῳδοῦσ᾽ ἀλλὰ π. μοι φράσον “Comica Adespota” 601, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 237a.)]
III.3 regular adverb πεζῶς in prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.165 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {ἱστορῆσαι}.)]
IV comparative πεζότερος more like a foot-journey, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.804d)]; more like prose, στίχοι π. τῇ συνθέσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.252, etc.: _superlative_ πεζότατος, τὸ π. μόριον τῆς ψυχή,compare 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Timaeum commentarii” 3.317 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]