ὁδηγέω
to guide
‘to guide’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Future-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where G3594 appears in the Present tense, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 1 verse
Luke 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.
The Greek verb οδηγεω centers on the idea of “to guide.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 15:14. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3594 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Johannine 2 verses · 40%
- Revelation 1 verse · 20%
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: Lead 2×
- American Standard Version: Guide 2×, Shall guide 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Guides 1×, He will guide 1×, He will lead 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Guide 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3594 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G3594 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3594 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3594 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- to be a guide, lead on one's way, to guide
- to be a guide or a teacher
Word origin
Derived from οδηγος (hodēgós) (G3595) — guide.
From G3595 ; to show the way (literally or figuratively [ teach ]): - guide lead.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3594 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὁδηγήσει hodēgḗsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 16:13 | 3 |
| ὁδηγεῖν hodēgeîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 6:39 | 1 |
| ὁδηγῇ hodēgē̂ | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 15:14 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οδηγεω appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 40 verses in 11 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 40
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 13:17 ὁδηγέω
- Numbers 24:8 ὁδηγέω
- Deuteronomy 1:33 ὁδηγέω
- Joshua 24:3 ὁδηγέω
- 2 Samuel 7:23 ὁδηγέω
- 1 Chronicles 17:21 ὁδηγέω
- Ezra 19:12 ὁδηγέω
- Job 31:18 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 5:9 ὁδηγέω
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 ὁδηγέω
- Isaiah 63:14 ὁδηγέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3594) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 13:17 ὁδηγέω It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
- Exodus 15:13 ὁδηγέω "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 32:34 ὁδηγέω Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
- Numbers 24:8 ὁδηγέω God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, Shall break their bones in pieces, Smite [them] through with his arrows.
- Deuteronomy 1:33 ὁδηγέω who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
- Joshua 24:3 ὁδηγέω I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
- 2 Samuel 7:23 ὁδηγέω What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
- 1 Chronicles 17:21 ὁδηγέω What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
- Ezra 19:12 ὁδηγέω
- Ezra 19:19 ὁδηγέω
- Job 31:18 ὁδηγέω (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
- Psalms 5:9 ὁδηγέω For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 22:3 ὁδηγέω But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel.
- Psalms 24:5 ὁδηγέω He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- Psalms 24:9 ὁδηγέω Lift up your heads, you gates; Yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
- Psalms 26:11 ὁδηγέω But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Psalms 30:4 ὁδηγέω Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
- Psalms 42:3 ὁδηγέω My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 44:5 ὁδηγέω Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
- Psalms 59:11 ὁδηγέω Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
- Psalms 60:4 ὁδηγέω You have given a banner to those who fear you, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- Psalms 66:5 ὁδηγέω Come, and see God's deeds-- Awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
- Psalms 72:24 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 76:21 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 77:14 ὁδηγέω You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
- Psalms 77:53 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 77:72 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 79:2 ὁδηγέω They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
- Psalms 85:11 ὁδηγέω Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
- Psalms 89:16 ὁδηγέω In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
- Psalms 105:9 ὁδηγέω The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
- Psalms 106:7 ὁδηγέω Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:30 ὁδηγέω Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, So the plague was stopped.
- Psalms 107:11 ὁδηγέω Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.
- Psalms 118:35 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 138:10 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 138:24 ὁδηγέω
- Psalms 142:10 ὁδηγέω
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 ὁδηγέω I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
- Isaiah 63:14 ὁδηγέω As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3594) 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.
