πορεύω: to lead over, carry over, transfer (Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, others); middle (from Herodotus down), present πορεύομαι; imperfect ἐπορευόμην; future πορεύσομαι; perfect participle πεπορευμένος; 1 aorist subjunctive 1 person plural πορευσώμεθα (Jas 4:13 Rec.st Griesbach); 1 aorist passive ἐπορεύθην; (πόρος a ford (cf. English pore i. e. passage through; Curtius, § 356; Vanicek, p. 479)); the Sept. often for äÈìÇê, äÄúÀäÇìÅÌê, éÈìÇê; properly, to lead oneself across; i. e. to take one’s way, betake oneself, set out, depart;

a. properly: τήν ὁδόν μου, to pursue the journey on which one has entered, continue one’s journey (A. V. go on one’s way), Act 8:39; πορεύειν followed by ἀπό with a genitive of place, to depart from, Mat 24:1 (R G); ἀπό with a genitive of the person, Mat 25:41; Luk 4:42; ἐκεῖθεν, Mat 19:15; ἐντεῦθεν, Luk 13:31; followed by εἰς with an accusative of place, to go, depart, to some place: Mat 2:20; Mat 17:27; Mar 16:12; Luk 1:39; Luk 2:41; Luk 22:39; Luk 24:13; Joh 7:35; Joh 8:1; Act 1:11; Act 1:25; Act 20:1; Rom 15:24; Jas 4:13, etc.; with an accusative denoting the state: εἰς εἰρήνην, Luk 7:50; Luk 8:48 (also ἐν εἰρήνη, Act 16:36; see εἰρήνη, 3); εἰς θάνατον, Luk 22:33; followed by ἐπί with an accusative of place, Mat 22:9; Act 8:26; Act 9:11; ἐπί with the accusative of a person Act 25:12; ἕως with a genitive of place, Act 23:23; ποῦ (which see) for ποῖ, Joh 7:35; οὗ (see ὅς, II. 11 a.) for ὅποι, Luk 24:28; 1Co 16:6; πρός with the accusative of a person, Mat 25:9; Mat 26:14; Luk 11:5; Luk 15:18; Luk 16:30; Joh 14:12; Joh 14:28; Joh 16:28; Joh 20:17; Act 27:3; Act 28:26; κατά τήν ὁδόν,Act 8:36; διά with a genitive of place, Mat 12:1; (Mar 9:30 L text Tr text WH text); the purpose of the journey is indicated by an infinitive: Mat 28:8-9 Rec.; Luk 2:3; Luk 14:19; Luk 14:31; Joh 14:2; by the preposition ἐπί with an accusative (cf. ἐπί, C. I. 1 f.), Luk 15:4; followed by ἵνα, Joh 11:11; by σύν with a dative of the attendance, Luk 7:6; Act 10:20; Act 26:13; 1Co 16:4; ἔμπροσθεν τίνος, to go before one, Joh 10:4. absolutely equivalent to to depart, go one’s way: Mat 2:9; Mat 8:9; Mat 11:7; Mat 28:11; Luk 7:8; Luk 17:19; Joh 4:50; Joh 8:11; Joh 14:3; Act 5:20; Act 8:27; Act 21:5; Act 22:21, etc.; equivalent to to be on one’s way, to journey: (Luk 8:42 L Tr marginal reading); ; Act 9:3; Act 22:6. to enter upon a journey; to go to do something: 1Co 10:27; Luk 10:37. In accordance with the oriental fashion of describing an action circumstantially, the participle πορευόμενος or πορευθείς is placed before a finite verb which designates some other action (cf. ἀνίστημι, II. 1 c. and ἔρχομαι, I. 1 a. α., p. 250b bottom): Mat 2:8; Mat 9:13 (on which cf. the rabbinical phrase åÌìÀîÉã öÅà (cf. Schoettgen or Wetstein at the passage)); ; Luk 7:22; Luk 9:13; Luk 9:52; Luk 13:32; Luk 14:10; Luk 15:15; Luk 17:14; Luk 22:8; 1Pe 3:19.

b. By a Hebraism, metaphorically, α. to depart from life: Luk 22:22; so äÈìÇê, Gen 15:2; Psalm 39:14. β. ὀπίσω τίνος, to follow one, i. e. become his adherent (cf. Buttmann, 184 (160)): Luk 21:8 (Jdg 2:12; 1Ki 11:10; Sir 46:10); to seek (cf. English run after) anything, 2Pe 2:10. γ. to lead or order one’s life (see περιπατέω, b. α. and ὁδός, 2 a.); followed by ἐν with a dative of the thing to which one’s life is given up: ἐν ἀσελγείαις, 1Pe 4:3; ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τοῦ κυρίου, Luk 1:6; κατά τάς ἐπιθυμίας, 2Pe 3:3; Jud 1:16; Jud 1:18; ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου, dative of place (to walk in one’s own ways), to follow one’s moral preferences, Act 14:16; τῇ ὁδῷ τίνος, to imitate one, to follow his ways, Jud 1:11; τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ κυρίου, Act 9:31; see Winers Grammar, § 31, 9; Buttmann, § 133, 22 b.; ὑπό μεριμνῶν, to lead a life subject to cares, Luk 8:14, cf. Bornemann at the passage; (Meyer edition Weiss at the passage; yet see ὑπό, I. 2 a.; Winers Grammar, 369 (346) note; Buttmann, § 147, 29; R. V. as they go on their way they are choked with cares, etc. Compare: διαπορεύω, εἰσπορεύω (μαι), ἐκπορεύω (ἐκπορεύομαι), ἐνπορεύω (ἐνπορεύομαι), ἐπιπορεύω (ἐπιπορεύομαι), παραπορεύω (παραπορεύομαι), προπορεύω, προσπορεύω (προσπορεύομαι), συνπορεύω (συνπορεύομαι). Synonym: see ἔρχομαι, at the end)