Strong G5409φορέω
to wear
- Transliteration
- phoreō
- Pronunciation
- for-eh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5411; to have a burden that is (by analogy) to wear as clothing or a constant accompaniment: - bear wear.
Detailed definition
φορέω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Pro.16:23 (יָסַף hi.), Sir.11:5, al.;]
frequent. of φέρω, denoting repeated or habitual action (cf. Tr., Syn., § lviii), most commonly used of clothing, weapons, etc., to bear constantly, wear: Mat.11:8, Jhn.19:5, Rom.13:4, 1Co.15:49, Jas.2:3.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Pro.16:23 (יָסַף hi.), Sir.11:5, al.;]
frequent. of φέρω, denoting repeated or habitual action (cf. Tr., Syn., § lviii), most commonly used of clothing, weapons, etc., to bear constantly, wear: Mat.11:8, Jhn.19:5, Rom.13:4, 1Co.15:49, Jas.2:3.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5409 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wear2
- bear1
- beareth1
- shall1
- weareth1
First verses
- Matthew 11:8But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
- John 19:5Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
- Romans 13:4For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
- 1 Corinthians 15:49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
- James 2:3And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φορ-έω,
Epic dialect subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular φορέῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.328, 9.10)]; Epic dialect infinitive φορῆναι (as if from *φόρημι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.107, 7.149, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.224; φορήμεναι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.310:)]imperfect ἐφόρεον(-εο- syniz.) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.456)], 3rd.pers. singular ἐφόρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.137)]; Ionic dialect φορέεσκον [Refs (2.770, 13.372)]: future φορήσω [LXX+5th c.BC+ (“Scol.” 9 (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 632), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.32; later φορέσω LXX.Pro.16.23)]: aorist ἐφόρησα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.95 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 213)], Epic dialect φόρησα [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.11, (δια-, ἐκ-) 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.43, 42; later ἐφόρεσα LXX.Sir.11.5, _falsa lectio_ in 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.7, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 48(24).80, “Sammelb.” 7247.33 (3rd-4th c.AD))]:—middle, future φορήσομαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; in _passive_ sense, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.398d:)]aorist ἐφορησάμην [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἐξ-) 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.39)]:—passive, Aeolic dialect present φορήμεθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.4:)]aorist ἐφορήθην [Refs 1st c.AD+ ((ἐν-) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.703b)]: perfect πεφόρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 52a)]; pluperfect πεφόρητο [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 816:)] — _frequentative verb_ of φέρω, implying repeated or habitual action, ἵπποι οἳ φορέεσκον ἀμύμονα Πηλεΐωνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.770, compare 10.323; τά τε νῆες φορέουσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.390)]; of a slave, ὕδωρ ἐφόρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.358, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.457; μέθυ οἰνοχόος φ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.10; θαλλὸν ἐρίφοισι φ. 17.224)]; of the wind, bear to and fro, bear along, ἄνεμος ἄχνας φορέει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.499, compare 21.337, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.328; σώματα.. κύμαθ᾽ ἁλὸς.. φορέουσι 12.68; τόφρα δέ μ᾽ αἰεὶ κῦμα φ. 6.171)]; so ἀγγελίας ἐφόρεε conveyed messages habitually, served as a messenger. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34 (nisi to be read ἐσεφόρεε))]; φ. θρεπτήρια, of Oedipus carrying about food in a wallet, like a beggar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1262; λόγχαν ἔτη ἐφόρησε ἓξ ἐν τᾷ γνάθῳ “IG” 42(1).121.95 (Epid.. 4th c.BC): _absolutely_, ἐγ γαστρὶ ἐφόρει τρία ἔτη)] was pregnant, [Refs ([prev. work] 14)]:—passive, see #11.
2 most commonly of clothes, armour, and the like, bear constantly, wear, [σκῆπτρον] ἐν παλάμῃς φ. δικασπόλοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.238; μίτρης ἣν ἐφόρει 4.137; θώρηξ χάλκεος, ὃν φορέεσκε 13.372, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.127, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, etc.; φ. ἐσθήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 269; στολάς [prev. author] “OC” 1357; ζεῦγος ἐμβάδων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 872; ἱμάτιον [prev. author] “Pl.” 991, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 197b; δακτύλιον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 883.)]
3 of features, qualities, etc., of mind or body, possess, hold, bear, ἀγλαΐας φ. to be pompous or splendid, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.245; φ. ὄνομα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 658; ἦθος [prev. author] “Ant.” 705; δόξαν “Arch.Papyrus” 1.220 (2nd c.BC))]; ἕνα γομφίον μόνον φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1059; γλῶτταν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 51)]; ἀπόνοιαν φορεῖς you are mad, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PGrenf.” 1.53.15 (4th c.AD))]; with genitive or adjective added, σκέλεα φ. γεράνου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76; ἰσχυρὰς φ. τὰς κεφαλάς [prev. author] 3.12, compare 101; ποδώκη τὸν τρόπον φ. “Tragica Adespota” 519; γένειον διηλιφὲς φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 564; ὑπόπτερον δέμας φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 619; λῆμα θούριον φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 757; ῥύγχος φ. ὕειον 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 11; καλάμινα σκέλη φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 184; ὥσπερ σέλινον οὖλα τὰ σκέλη φ. “Comica Adespota” 208; τὸ στόμ᾽ ὡς κομψὸν φ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 98.21 (troch.).)]
4 bear, suffer, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” pp.59,62 O. (uncertain reading in both), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.692d, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.298.)]
5 of Time, extend, last, ἃ φορεῖ ἐπὶ ἡμέρας δεκαπέντε uncertain meaning in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“PFlor.” 384.54 (5th c.AD).)]
II passive, to be borne along, ἐν ῥοθίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 362 (Lyric poetry); φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 752)]; κόνις δ᾽ ἄνω φορεῖθ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 715; ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 689; πολλοῖς διαύλοις κυμάτων φ. [prev. author] “Hec.” 29, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.398d)]; πεφορημένον ἀεί always in motion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 52a)]: hence, to be storm-tossed, νᾶϊ φορήμεθα σὺν μελαίνᾳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 144; ποσσὶ φ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.83, compare 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.23: _metaphorically_, δόξαις φορεῖται τοπαζόμενα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 976a.)]
II.2 to be carried away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76)]; simply, to be shifted, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 293.)]
III middle, fetch for oneself, fetch regularly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 309)]; λευκανίηνδε φορεύμενος putting food into one's mouth, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.192.)]
Epic dialect subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular φορέῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.328, 9.10)]; Epic dialect infinitive φορῆναι (as if from *φόρημι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.107, 7.149, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.224; φορήμεναι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.310:)]imperfect ἐφόρεον(-εο- syniz.) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.456)], 3rd.pers. singular ἐφόρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.137)]; Ionic dialect φορέεσκον [Refs (2.770, 13.372)]: future φορήσω [LXX+5th c.BC+ (“Scol.” 9 (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 632), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.32; later φορέσω LXX.Pro.16.23)]: aorist ἐφόρησα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).121.95 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 213)], Epic dialect φόρησα [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.11, (δια-, ἐκ-) 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.43, 42; later ἐφόρεσα LXX.Sir.11.5, _falsa lectio_ in 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.7, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 48(24).80, “Sammelb.” 7247.33 (3rd-4th c.AD))]:—middle, future φορήσομαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; in _passive_ sense, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.398d:)]aorist ἐφορησάμην [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἐξ-) 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.39)]:—passive, Aeolic dialect present φορήμεθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.4:)]aorist ἐφορήθην [Refs 1st c.AD+ ((ἐν-) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.703b)]: perfect πεφόρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 52a)]; pluperfect πεφόρητο [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 816:)] — _frequentative verb_ of φέρω, implying repeated or habitual action, ἵπποι οἳ φορέεσκον ἀμύμονα Πηλεΐωνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.770, compare 10.323; τά τε νῆες φορέουσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.390)]; of a slave, ὕδωρ ἐφόρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (10.358, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.457; μέθυ οἰνοχόος φ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.10; θαλλὸν ἐρίφοισι φ. 17.224)]; of the wind, bear to and fro, bear along, ἄνεμος ἄχνας φορέει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.499, compare 21.337, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.328; σώματα.. κύμαθ᾽ ἁλὸς.. φορέουσι 12.68; τόφρα δέ μ᾽ αἰεὶ κῦμα φ. 6.171)]; so ἀγγελίας ἐφόρεε conveyed messages habitually, served as a messenger. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34 (nisi to be read ἐσεφόρεε))]; φ. θρεπτήρια, of Oedipus carrying about food in a wallet, like a beggar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1262; λόγχαν ἔτη ἐφόρησε ἓξ ἐν τᾷ γνάθῳ “IG” 42(1).121.95 (Epid.. 4th c.BC): _absolutely_, ἐγ γαστρὶ ἐφόρει τρία ἔτη)] was pregnant, [Refs ([prev. work] 14)]:—passive, see #11.
2 most commonly of clothes, armour, and the like, bear constantly, wear, [σκῆπτρον] ἐν παλάμῃς φ. δικασπόλοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.238; μίτρης ἣν ἐφόρει 4.137; θώρηξ χάλκεος, ὃν φορέεσκε 13.372, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.127, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, etc.; φ. ἐσθήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 269; στολάς [prev. author] “OC” 1357; ζεῦγος ἐμβάδων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 872; ἱμάτιον [prev. author] “Pl.” 991, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 197b; δακτύλιον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 883.)]
3 of features, qualities, etc., of mind or body, possess, hold, bear, ἀγλαΐας φ. to be pompous or splendid, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.245; φ. ὄνομα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 658; ἦθος [prev. author] “Ant.” 705; δόξαν “Arch.Papyrus” 1.220 (2nd c.BC))]; ἕνα γομφίον μόνον φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1059; γλῶτταν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 51)]; ἀπόνοιαν φορεῖς you are mad, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PGrenf.” 1.53.15 (4th c.AD))]; with genitive or adjective added, σκέλεα φ. γεράνου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76; ἰσχυρὰς φ. τὰς κεφαλάς [prev. author] 3.12, compare 101; ποδώκη τὸν τρόπον φ. “Tragica Adespota” 519; γένειον διηλιφὲς φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 564; ὑπόπτερον δέμας φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 619; λῆμα θούριον φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 757; ῥύγχος φ. ὕειον 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 11; καλάμινα σκέλη φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 184; ὥσπερ σέλινον οὖλα τὰ σκέλη φ. “Comica Adespota” 208; τὸ στόμ᾽ ὡς κομψὸν φ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 98.21 (troch.).)]
4 bear, suffer, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” pp.59,62 O. (uncertain reading in both), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.692d, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.298.)]
5 of Time, extend, last, ἃ φορεῖ ἐπὶ ἡμέρας δεκαπέντε uncertain meaning in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“PFlor.” 384.54 (5th c.AD).)]
II passive, to be borne along, ἐν ῥοθίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 362 (Lyric poetry); φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 752)]; κόνις δ᾽ ἄνω φορεῖθ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 715; ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 689; πολλοῖς διαύλοις κυμάτων φ. [prev. author] “Hec.” 29, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.398d)]; πεφορημένον ἀεί always in motion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 52a)]: hence, to be storm-tossed, νᾶϊ φορήμεθα σὺν μελαίνᾳ [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 144; ποσσὶ φ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.83, compare 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus 1.23: _metaphorically_, δόξαις φορεῖται τοπαζόμενα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 976a.)]
II.2 to be carried away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76)]; simply, to be shifted, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 293.)]
III middle, fetch for oneself, fetch regularly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 309)]; λευκανίηνδε φορεύμενος putting food into one's mouth, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.192.)]