πόῤῥωθεν
from afar
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G4207 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
πορρωθεν — transliterated pórrhōthen — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “from afar.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. Debuting at Luke 17:12, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include πορρω and πορρωτερω. 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 G4207 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%
- Hebrews 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: Afar off 2×
- American Standard Version: Afar 1×, Afar off 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Afar 1×, Distance 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Distance 1×, Far off 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4207 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4207 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4207 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4207 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- from afar, afar off
Word origin
Derived from πορρω (pórrhō) (G4206) — far.
From G4206 with adverbial enclitic of source; from far or (by implication) at a distance that is distantly : - afar off.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4207, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πορρωθεν appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 4 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Kings 20:14 πόρρωθεν
- Job 2:12 πόρρωθεν
- Isaiah 10:3 πόρρωθεν
- Jeremiah 5:15 πόρρωθεν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4207) 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.
- 2 Kings 20:14 πόρρωθεν Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
- Job 2:12 πόρρωθεν When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
- Job 39:25 πόρρωθεν As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
- Job 39:29 πόρρωθεν From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
- Isaiah 10:3 πόρρωθεν What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
- Isaiah 13:5 πόρρωθεν They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
- Isaiah 33:13 πόρρωθεν Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.
- Isaiah 33:17 πόρρωθεν Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
- Isaiah 39:3 πόρρωθεν Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.
- Isaiah 43:6 πόρρωθεν I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
- Isaiah 46:11 πόρρωθεν calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
- Isaiah 49:12 πόρρωθεν Behold, these shall come from far; and, behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
- Jeremiah 5:15 πόρρωθεν Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what they say.
- Jeremiah 23:23 πόρρωθεν Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
- Jeremiah 38:3 πόρρωθεν Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4207) 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.
