μεταβαίνω
to pass over
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 2 times (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3327 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 8:34 μεταβῇ aor act subj 3sg Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
- Matthew 11:1 μετέβη aor act ind 3sg It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
- Matthew 12:9 μεταβὰς aor act ptcp nom sg masc He departed there, and went into their synagogue.
- Matthew 15:29 μεταβὰς aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
- Matthew 17:20 μετάβα μεταβήσεται aor act impv 2sg fut mid.dep ind 3sg He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Luke 1 verse
John 3 verses
- John 5:24 μεταβέβηκεν perf act ind 3sg "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- John 7:3 μετάβηθι aor act impv 2sg His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
- John 13:1 μεταβῇ aor act subj 3sg Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Acts 1 verse
1 John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
μεταβαινω (metabaínō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to pass over.” Debuting at Matthew 8:34, it then recurs through the corpus. With 11 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 45% of its uses. From the same root come μετα, μεθερμηνευω and μεθιστημι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3327 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 82%
- Johannine 4 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 18%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 9%
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: He departed 2×
- American Standard Version: He departed 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Leave 3×, Moving on 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having departed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3327 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3327 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G3327 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3327 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 1 sense 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.
- to pass over from one place to another, to remove, depart
Word origin
Derived from μετα (metá) (G3326) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G3327 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μεταβὰς metabàs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 12:9 | 3 |
| μεταβῇ metabē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 8:34 | 2 |
| μετάβα metába | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 17:20 | 1 |
| μετάβηθι metábēthi | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | John 7:3 | 1 |
| μετέβη metébē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 11:1 | 1 |
| μεταβέβηκεν metabébēken | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 5:24 | 1 |
| μεταβήσεται metabḗsetai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 17:20 | 1 |
| μεταβαίνετε metabaínete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 10:7 | 1 |
| μεταβεβήκαμεν metabebḗkamen | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 1 John 3:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3327, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μεθερμηνευω methermēneúō G3177 to interpret
- μεθιστημι methístēmi G3179 to transfer
- μεθοδεια methodeía G3180 deceit
- μεθοριος methórios G3181 border
- μεσος mésos G3319 middle
- μεταβαλλω metabállō G3328 to turn around
- μεταγω metágō G3329 to transfer
- μεταδιδωμι metadídōmi G3330 to impart
- μεταιρω metaírō G3332 to remove
- μετακαλεω metakaléō G3333 to summon
- μετακινεω metakinéō G3334 to move away
- μεταλαμβανω metalambánō G3335 to partake
- μεταλλασσω metallássō G3337 to exchange
- μεταμελλομαι metaméllomai G3338 it is a care
- μεταμορφοω metamorphóō G3339 to transform
- μετανοεω metanoéō G3340 to repent
- μεταξυ metaxý G3342 between
- μεταπεμπω metapémpō G3343 to send for
- μεταστρεφω metastréphō G3344 to turn around
- μετασχηματιζω metaschēmatízō G3345 to transform
- μετατιθημι metatíthēmi G3346 to transpose
- μετεπειτα metépeita G3347 afterwards
- μετεχω metéchō G3348 to partake
- μετεωριζω meteōrízō G3349 to be puffed up
+2 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 28 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
