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ὁδός

way

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G3598 Strong's Greek
hodós Transliteration
/hod-os'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 101 appearances

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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.

At its core, οδος (hodós) means “way.” It first appears in Matthew 2:12. It turns up in 99 verses across 13 books, a moderately common footprint. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It clusters with οδευω, οδηγος and οδοιπορεω under a shared root. Dig into 99-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
journey
Modern gloss
way
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 G3598 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 →

99
distinct verses
The word appears in 99 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:12.
Revelation 16:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 16:12.
#163
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 163 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 99 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 61 · 62%
  • Acts 20 · 20%
  • Pauline Epistles 6 · 6%
  • General Epistles 10 · 10%
  • Revelation 2 · 2%

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 99 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 61 verses · 62%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 40 verses · 40%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 7 verses · 7%
  • Johannine 6 verses · 6%
  • Pauline corpus 6 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 3%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 2%

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: Way 70×, Ways 11×, Way side 7×
  • American Standard Version: Way 63×, Ways 10×, Way side 9×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Way 49×, Road 22×, Path 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Way 53×, Road 30×, Ways 7×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3598 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Way” 70×
  • “Ways” 11×
  • “Way side” 7×
  • “Journey” 5×
  • “Highways” 2×
  • “Is the way” 2×

Plus 2 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 3 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3598 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Way” 63×
  • “Ways” 10×
  • “Way side” 9×
  • “Journey” 4×
  • “Ready the way” 3×
  • “'s journey” 2×
  • “Highways” 2×

Plus 5 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 G3598 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Way” 49×
  • “Road” 22×
  • “Path” 8×
  • “Ways” 6×
  • “Journey” 4×
  • “Route” 2×

Plus 6 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 4 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3598 across 110 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Way” 53×
  • “Road” 30×
  • “Ways” 7×
  • “Roads” 4×
  • “A” 3×
  • “Paths” 3×
  • “Journey” 2×
  • “Path” 2×

Plus 6 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. properly
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Origin: apparently a root word

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 05:42,7

Apparently a primary word; a road ; by implication a progress (the route act or distance); figuratively a mode or means : - journey (high-) way.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G3598 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὁδὸν hodòn Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 3:3 35
ὁδῷ hodō̂ Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 5:25 23
ὁδόν hodón Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 11:10 16
ὁδοῦ hodoû Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 2:12 8
ὁδοὺς hodoùs Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 22:10 6
ὁδὸς hodòs Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 7:13 5
ὁδοῖς hodoîs Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine Acts 14:16 3
ὁδούς hodoús Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 1 Corinthians 4:17 2
ὁδοί hodoí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Revelation 15:3 1
ὁδοὶ hodoì Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Romans 11:33 1
ὁδῶν hodō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Matthew 22:9 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3598, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word οδος appears 745 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 661 verses in 33 books.

745
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
661
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
33 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3598) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 661. 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 (G3598) 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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