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περιπατέω

to walk

‘to walk’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4043 Strong's Greek
peripatéō Transliteration
/per-ee-pat-eh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 94 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb περιπατεω centers on the idea of “to walk.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 4:18. The Greek New Testament uses it across 87 verses — moderately common. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Sharing its root, it stands alongside περι, περιαγω and περιαιρεω. Dig into 87-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
to walk
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 G4043 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 →

87
distinct verses
The word appears in 87 distinct verses.
20 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:18
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:18.
Revelation 21:24
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:24.
#181
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 181 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 87 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 35 · 40%
  • Acts 7 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 30 · 34%
  • General Epistles 10 · 11%
  • Revelation 5 · 6%

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 87 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 35 verses · 40%
  • Pauline corpus 30 verses · 34%
  • Johannine 28 verses · 32%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 14%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 9 verses · 10%
  • Revelation 5 verses · 6%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%

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: Walk 37×, Walking 11×, Walked 10×
  • American Standard Version: Walk 34×, Walking 13×, Walked 10×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Walk 25×, Walking 10×, Walked 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Walk 33×, Walking 25×, Walked 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4043 across 97 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Walk” 37×
  • “Walking” 11×
  • “Walked” 10×
  • “We walk” 4×
  • “He walked” 3×
  • “Walketh” 3×
  • “Ye walk” 3×

Plus 26 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 G4043 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Walk” 34×
  • “Walking” 13×
  • “Walked” 10×
  • “We walk” 3×
  • “He that walketh” 2×
  • “Walketh” 2×
  • “Was walking” 2×
  • “We should walk” 2×
  • “Ye walk” 2×

Plus 26 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 G4043 across 95 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Walk” 25×
  • “Walking” 10×
  • “Walked” 5×
  • “Walks” 5×
  • “Began to walk” 3×
  • “Live” 3×
  • “Was walking” 3×
  • “We walk” 3×
  • “Continue to walk” 2×
  • “Walk around” 2×

Plus 34 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 G4043 across 103 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Walk” 33×
  • “Walking” 25×
  • “Walked” 6×
  • “Walks” 3×
  • “Are walking” 2×
  • “Began to walk” 2×
  • “Might walk” 2×
  • “Was walking” 2×
  • “We walk” 2×
  • “You are walking” 2×

Plus 24 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 make one's way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
  2. Hebrew for, to live

Word origin

Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 20:40,8

From G4012 and G3961 ; to tread all around that is walk at large (especially as proof of ability); figuratively to live deport oneself follow (as a companion or votary): - go be occupied with walk (about).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 29 distinct written forms G4043 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
περιπατεῖν peripateîn Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Mark 12:38 10
περιπατεῖτε peripateîte Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural John 12:35 9
περιεπάτει periepátei Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 5:42 7
περιπατοῦσιν peripatoûsin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 11:5 6
περιπάτει peripátei Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 9:5 6
περιπατοῦντας peripatoûntas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 15:31 6
περιπατοῦντα peripatoûnta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:26 5
περιπατοῦντες peripatoûntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 11:44 5
περιπατῶν peripatō̂n Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 14:25 5
περιεπάτησεν periepátēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 14:29 3
περιπατήσωμεν peripatḗsōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 6:4 3
περιπατεῖ peripateî Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Ephesians 4:17 3
περιπατῇ peripatē̂ Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 11:9 3
περιπατῶμεν peripatō̂men Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural 1 John 1:6 3
περιπατήσουσιν peripatḗsousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 3:4 2
περιπατεῖς peripateîs Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Romans 14:15 2
περιπατοῦντος peripatoûntos Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Mark 11:27 2
περιπατῆσαι peripatē̂sai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Ephesians 4:1 2
περιπατῆτε peripatē̂te Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 1 Thessalonians 4:12 2
Περιπατῶν Peripatō̂n Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 4:18 1
περιεπάτεις periepáteis Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 21:18 1
περιεπάτουν periepátoun Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 6:66 1
περιεπατήσαμεν periepatḗsamen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 2 Corinthians 12:18 1
περιεπατήσατέ periepatḗsaté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Colossians 3:7 1
περιεπατήσατε periepatḗsate Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Ephesians 2:2 1
περιπατήσῃ peripatḗsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 8:12 1
περιπατείτω peripateítō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 7:17 1
περιπατοῦμεν peripatoûmen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 2 Corinthians 5:7 1
περιπατοῦντι peripatoûnti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine John 1:36 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4043, 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

+17 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 43 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word περιπατεω appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 15 books.

32
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
32
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
15 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4043) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4043) 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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