ὁδός
way
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3598 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 2 distinct verses. 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.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 4:17 ὁδούς n acc pl fem Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 12:31 ὁδὸν n acc sg fem But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- properly
- metaph.
Word origin
Origin: apparently a root word
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
- Genesis 3:24 ὁδός
- Exodus 3:18 ὁδός
- Leviticus 26:22 ὁδός
- Numbers 9:10 ὁδός
- Deuteronomy 1:2 ὁδός
- Joshua 1:8 ὁδός
- Judges 2:17 ὁδός
- Ruth 1:7 ὁδός
- 1 Samuel 1:18 ὁδός
- 2 Samuel 2:24 ὁδός
- 1 Kings 1:49 ὁδός
- 2 Kings 2:23 ὁδός
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.
- Genesis 3:24 ὁδός So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Genesis 6:12 ὁδός God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 16:7 ὁδός The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
- Genesis 18:5 ὁδός I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."
- Genesis 18:19 ὁδός For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 19:2 ὁδός and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
- Genesis 24:21 ὁδός The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:40 ὁδός He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 24:42 ὁδός I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 24:48 ὁδός I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
- Genesis 24:56 ὁδός He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
- Genesis 28:15 ὁδός Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
- Genesis 28:20 ὁδός Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
- Genesis 30:36 ὁδός He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
- Genesis 31:23 ὁδός He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 32:2 ὁδός When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 33:14 ὁδός Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 33:16 ὁδός So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
- Genesis 35:3 ὁδός Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
- Genesis 35:19 ὁδός Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).
- Genesis 38:16 ὁδός He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
- Genesis 38:21 ὁδός Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
- Genesis 42:25 ὁδός Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 42:38 ὁδός He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 44:29 ὁδός If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
- Genesis 45:21 ὁδός The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
- Genesis 45:23 ὁδός To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
- Genesis 45:24 ὁδός So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."
- Genesis 48:7 ὁδός As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
- Genesis 49:17 ὁδός Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.
- Exodus 3:18 ὁδός They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 4:24 ὁδός It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exodus 5:3 ὁδός They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 8:23 ὁδός I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
- Exodus 12:39 ὁδός They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
- Exodus 13:17 ὁδός 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 13:18 ὁδός but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:21 ὁδός Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 18:8 ὁδός Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
- Exodus 18:20 ὁδός You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 23:20 ὁδός "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Exodus 32:8 ὁδός They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 33:3 ὁδός to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
- Leviticus 26:22 ὁδός I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
- Numbers 9:10 ὁδός "Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
- Numbers 9:13 ὁδός But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 10:33 ὁδός They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
- Numbers 11:31 ὁδός There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 14:25 ὁδός Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
- Numbers 20:17 ὁδός Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.
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.
