περιπατέω
to walk
‘to walk’ 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 Present-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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G4043 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Acts. 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.
Acts
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 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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- to make one's way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
- Hebrew for, to live
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
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.
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
- περιαγω periágō G4013 to lead around
- περιαιρεω periairéō G4014 to take away
- περιαστραπτω periastráptō G4015 to shine around
- περιβαλλω peribállō G4016 to throw around
- περιβλεπω periblépō G4017 to look around
- περιδεω peridéō G4019 to bind around
- περιεργαζομαι periergázomai G4020 to bustle about
- περιεργος períergos G4021 busybody
- περιερχομαι periérchomai G4022 to go about
- περιεχω periéchō G4023 to surround
- περιζωννυμι perizṓnnymi G4024 to gird
- περιΐστημι periḯstēmi G4026 to stand around
- περικαθαρμα perikátharma G4027 scum
- περικαλυπτω perikalýptō G4028 to cover up
- περικειμαι períkeimai G4029 to lie around
- περικεφαλαια perikephalaía G4030 helmet
- περικρατης perikratḗs G4031 to have power over
- περικρυπτω perikrýptō G4032 to hide
- περικυκλοω perikyklóō G4033 to encircle
- περιλαμπω perilámpō G4034 to shine around
- περιλειπω perileípō G4035 to remain over
- περιλυπος perílypos G4036 deeply sorrowful
- περιμενω periménō G4037 to wait for
- περιξ périx G4038 round about
+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
- Genesis 3:8 περιπατέω
- Exodus 21:19 περιπατέω
- Leviticus 26:12 περιπατέω
- Deuteronomy 23:15 περιπατέω
- Judges 21:24 περιπατέω
- 1 Samuel 17:19 περιπατέω
- 2 Samuel 7:6 περιπατέω
- 2 Kings 20:3 περιπατέω
- Esther 2:11 περιπατέω
- Job 1:7 περιπατέω
- Psalms 11:9 περιπατέω
- Proverbs 6:22 περιπατέω
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.
- Genesis 3:8 περιπατέω They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:10 περιπατέω The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Exodus 21:19 περιπατέω if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
- Leviticus 26:12 περιπατέω I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- Deuteronomy 23:15 περιπατέω You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
- Judges 21:24 περιπατέω The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
- 1 Samuel 17:19 περιπατέω Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 7:6 περιπατέω for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tent.
- 2 Samuel 11:2 περιπατέω It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
- 2 Kings 20:3 περιπατέω Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Esther 2:11 περιπατέω Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.
- Job 1:7 περιπατέω Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Job 2:2 περιπατέω Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
- Job 9:8 περιπατέω Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;
- Job 20:25 περιπατέω He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
- Job 38:16 περιπατέω "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
- Psalms 11:9 περιπατέω
- Psalms 103:3 περιπατέω Who forgives all your sins; Who heals all your diseases;
- Psalms 113:15 περιπατέω
- Psalms 134:17 περιπατέω
- Proverbs 6:22 περιπατέω When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
- Proverbs 6:28 περιπατέω Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
- Proverbs 8:20 περιπατέω I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
- Proverbs 23:31 περιπατέω Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly:
- Proverbs 30:31 περιπατέω The greyhound, The male goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15 περιπατέω I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 περιπατέω Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Isaiah 8:7 περιπατέω now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;
- Isaiah 59:9 περιπατέω Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Daniel 3:92 περιπατέω
- Daniel 4:22 περιπατέω it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
- Daniel 4:26 περιπατέω Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
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.
