Strong G4197πορεία

journey

Transliteration
poreia
Pronunciation
por-i'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G4198; travel (by land); figuratively (plural) proceedings that is career: - journey [-ing] ways.

Detailed definition

πορεία, -ας, ἡ
(πορεύω), [in LXX chiefly for הֲלִיכָה and cogn. forms;]
1. a journey: Luk.13:22.

2. a going: metaphorically ("the rich man perishes while he is still on the move," Hort., in l), Jas.1:11.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4197 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • journey1
  • way1

First verses

  1. Luke 13:22
    And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
  2. James 1:11
    For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πορ-εία, ἡ,
(πορεύω mode of walking or running, gait, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 126, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 190b, “Ti.” 45a; τὰ ὀργανικὰ μέρη τῆς π. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 432b26)]; περὶ πορείας ζῴων, title of work by Aristotle.
II journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 823, +others; ἡ ἐκεῖσε π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 107d; ἡ κατὰ τὰ ἄγκη π. [prev. author] “Cra.” 420e; αἱ κατὰ γῆν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.19)]; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου, εἰς Πέρσας π., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 115a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.1: _metaphorically_, π. ἕως εἰς ἄπειρον)]processus ad infinilum, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Morte - Papiri Ercolanesi” 19.)]
II.2 in military sense, march, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.18; κατὰ θάλατταν τὴν π. ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.11; π. ἀνύτειν [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.6.18; ἰέναι [prev. work] 5.2.31 (nisi to be read εἶναι); ἐκ π. μάχεσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.198b)]; order of march, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 11 at Title Page, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 28.1, +others)]
II.3 generally, course taken by a person, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.4; ἡ[τοῦ κόσμου] π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 274a)]; of the sun, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Hymnus ad Isim” 32 (_plural_), 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus “Ars astronomica” 2.15; χρόνου π. 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 50.)]
II.4 travelling expenses, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1.34, “PRev.Laws” 50.11 (3rd c.BC, _plural_), “PGrenf.” 1.43.8 (2nd c.BC).)]
II.5 visitation, inspection, οἰκοπέδων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 83.1 (2nd-3rd c.AD), etc.)]