πορεία
journey
‘journey’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4197 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Luke
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.
πορεια — transliterated poreía — is a Greek word carrying the sense “journey.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. Debuting at Luke 13:22, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4197 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
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: Ways 1×
- American Standard Version: Goings 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pursuits 1×, Way 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Journey 1×, Journeys 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4197 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4197 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4197 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4197 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a journey
- a going, that is: purpose, pursuit, undertaking
Word origin
Derived from πορευομαι (poreúomai) (G4198) — to go.
From G4198 ; travel (by land); figuratively (plural) proceedings that is career : - journey [-ing] ways.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4197 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πορείαις poreíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | James 1:11 | 1 |
| πορείαν poreían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 13:22 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πορεια appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 9 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 33:2 πορεία
- Ezra 12:6 πορεία
- Psalms 67:25 πορεία
- Proverbs 2:7 πορεία
- Isaiah 3:16 πορεία
- Jeremiah 10:23 πορεία
- Jonah 3:3 πορεία
- Nahum 1:8 πορεία
- Habakkuk 3:7 πορεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4197) 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.
- Numbers 33:2 πορεία Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
- Ezra 12:6 πορεία
- Psalms 67:25 πορεία
- Proverbs 2:7 πορεία He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
- Proverbs 4:27 πορεία Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
- Proverbs 26:7 πορεία Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Isaiah 3:16 πορεία Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet;
- Isaiah 8:11 πορεία For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
- Jeremiah 10:23 πορεία Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- Jeremiah 18:15 πορεία For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
- Jonah 3:3 πορεία So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
- Jonah 3:4 πορεία Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
- Nahum 1:8 πορεία But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
- Nahum 2:6 πορεία The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
- Habakkuk 3:7 πορεία I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
- Habakkuk 3:10 πορεία The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4197) 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.
