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G3978 πεζεύω (pezeúō)

Greek
Verb
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Quick Definition

πεζεύω v. I travel on foot

Strong's Definition

to foot a journey, i.e. travel by land

Derivation: from the same as G3979 (πεζῇ);

KJV Usage: go afoot

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb | πέδη · πεδινός · πεζῇ · τράπεζα · τραπεζίτης

15.224 · Linear Movement · Walk, Step

to go by foot, to go by land to travel by foot

ACT 20:13

1 ACT 20:13 It is possible that πεζεύω in ACT 20:13 can mean merely to travel by land and not necessarily by foot.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

πεζεύω; (πεζός, which see); to travel on foot (not on horseback or in a carriage), or (if opposed to going by sea) by land: Act_20:13. (Xenophon, Isocrates, Polybius, Strabo, others.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

πεζεύω pezeuō 1x

pr. to travel on foot; to travel by land, Acts 20:13*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* πεζεύω

(< πεζός),

to travel on foot or by land: Ac 20:13.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

πεζεύω. On Ac 2015 Blass remarks: “' πεζεύειν de terrestri (non necessario pedestri) itinere.” An interesting parallel to the same passage is noted by Moffatt (Zr VIII. xvii. p. 237) from Plutarch’s life of Marcus Cato (ix), where Cato states that one of the three things he regretted in life was πλεύσας ὅπου δυνατὸν ἦν πεζεῦσαι, “having once sailed to a place where he could have walked.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

πεζεύω (pezeuō) — to walk. πεζ-εύω, go or travel on foot, walk, ἐπὶ γαίας πόδα πεζεύων (where πόδα is pleonastic) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. περὶ τὴν τροφήν, of certain birds, [Refs]

2. go or travel by land, opposed to going by sea, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ πεζεύοντες land-forces, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; π.διὰ τῆς θαλάσσης, of Xerxes passing by his bridge over the Hellespont, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τὴν θάλασσαν pass it like dry land, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; simply, march, pass through, ἀνοδίας [Refs 1st c.AD+]:— passive, ὁ Ἄθως πλείσθω καὶ ὁ Ἑλλήσποντος πεζευέσθω [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἡ ἐκ Βρεντεσίου πεζευομένη ὁδός by land, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; πεζεύεται impersonal, ταῖς ἁρμαμάξαις [Refs]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

πεζεύω (πεζός) to travel on foot or by land: Act.20:13.† (AS)

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