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ἐκπορεύομαι

to go forth

also: go out, depart fuller range ↓

G1607 Strong's Greek
ekporeúomai Transliteration
/ek-por-yoo'-om-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 33 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb εκπορευομαι centers on the idea of “to go forth.” Debuting at Matthew 3:5, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 33 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Mark dominates its distribution — 11 of 33 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “to go forth” it spans “go out” and “depart”. Dig into 33-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
come
Modern gloss
to go forth
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1607 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

33
distinct verses
The word appears in 33 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:5
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:5.
Revelation 22:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:1.
#433
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 433 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 33 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 21 · 64%
  • Acts 3 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 3%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 8 · 24%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 33 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 21 verses · 64%
  • Johannine 10 verses · 30%
  • Revelation 8 verses · 24%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 18%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 3%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Proceed 3×, Proceedeth 3×, Went 3×
  • American Standard Version: Proceedeth 5×, Proceed 4×, Went out 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Come 5×, Came 3×, Comes 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Come out 5×, Going out 5×, Coming out 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1607 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Proceed” 3×
  • “Proceedeth” 3×
  • “Went” 3×
  • “Went out” 3×
  • “Cometh” 2×
  • “Goeth” 2×
  • “Issued” 2×
  • “Proceeded” 2×

Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1607 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Proceedeth” 5×
  • “Proceed” 4×
  • “Went out” 4×
  • “Proceeded” 3×
  • “As” 2×
  • “Proceedeth out” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1607 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Come” 5×
  • “Came” 3×
  • “Comes” 3×
  • “Proceeds” 3×
  • “Proceeded” 2×
  • “Went out” 2×
  • “Were leaving” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1607 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Come out” 5×
  • “Going out” 5×
  • “Coming out” 3×
  • “Were going out” 3×
  • “Comes out” 2×
  • “Coming” 2×
  • “Go out” 2×
  • “Goes out” 2×

Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to go forth, go out, depart
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 15:38,9

From G1537 and G4198 ; to depart be discharged proceed project : - come (forth out of) depart go (forth out) issue proceed (out of).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 17 distinct written forms G1607 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐκπορεύεται ekporeúetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 7:19 7
ἐκπορευομένου ekporeuoménou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Mark 10:17 4
ἐκπορευόμενον ekporeuómenon Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 15:11 3
ἐξεπορεύετο exeporeúeto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 3:5 3
ἐκπορευομένοις ekporeuoménois Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Luke 3:7 2
ἐκπορεύεσθαι ekporeúesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive Acts 19:12 2
ἐκπορεύονται ekporeúontai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 7:21 2
ἐκπορευέσθω ekporeuésthō Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Ephesians 4:29 1
ἐκπορευομένη ekporeuoménē Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Revelation 1:16 1
ἐκπορευομένων ekporeuoménōn Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 20:29 1
ἐκπορευομένῳ ekporeuoménō Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Singular, Neuter Matthew 4:4 1
ἐκπορευόμενά ekporeuómená Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Mark 7:15 1
ἐκπορευόμενα ekporeuómena Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 15:18 1
ἐκπορευόμενοι ekporeuómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 6:11 1
ἐκπορευόμενος ekporeuómenos Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 9:28 1
ἐκπορεύσονται ekporeúsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 5:29 1
ἐξεπορεύοντο exeporeúonto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 11:19 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εκπορευομαι appears 148 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 144 verses in 22 books.

148
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
144
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
22 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1607) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 144. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1607) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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