Greek noun (feminine) · G3598
ὁδός
hodoshod-os'
a way, path, road; A traveller's; Metaphorical (cl.; Ellipsis of ὁ.
101 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hodós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3598is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 27New Testament books
- 14spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3598
a road; by implication, a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively, a mode or means
The King James renders it: journey, (high-)way.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hodos is rendered "a way, path, road; A traveller's; Metaphorical (cl.; Ellipsis of ὁ.". It stands 101 times in the Greek text, across thirteen books.
- Twenty-two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "a way, path, road".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
Matthew 2:12ὁδοῦ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: a way, path, road, and A traveller's, and Metaphorical (cl., and Ellipsis of ὁ..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a way, path, roadMat.2:12 | Tagged as
and 1 more, 95 uses in all | WhereMatthew 2:12And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod… |
| A traveller'sway, journey | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 5:25Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise… |
| Metaphorical (cl. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 14:16In past generations, He let all nations go their own way. |
| Ellipsis of ὁ. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 5:19but they could not find a way through the crowd… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 101, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὁδὸν37
- ὁδῷ21
- ὁδόν13
- ὁδοῦ7
- ὁδοὺς6
- ὁδὸς5
- ὁδοῖς3
- ὁδούς2
- ὁδῷ.¶2
- ὁδοί1
- ὁδοὶ1
- ὁδόν.¶1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular51N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular23N-DSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural8N-APF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular8N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular5N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural3N-DPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2N-NPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF
Matthew
twenty-two uses
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: route
This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- ὁδὸςhodosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: way
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- ὁδὸςhodosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: way
When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: way
These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: path
Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said,
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
A massive crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: road
For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
- ὁδῶνhodonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: highways
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: highways
They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Mark
sixteen uses
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: journey
If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Then Jesus and His disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way, He questioned His disciples: “Who do people say I am?”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: journey
As they were going up the road to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him:
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
- ὁδῷ.¶hodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Many in the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
“Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and seek favor from no one. Indeed, You are impartial and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay them or not?”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Luke
twenty uses
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Assuming He was in their company, they traveled on for a day before they began to look for Him among their relatives and friends.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: journey
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: journey
As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: a journey
Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: highways
As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
As He rode along, the people spread their cloaks on the road.
- ὁδῷ.¶hodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
“Teacher,” they inquired, “we know that You speak and teach correctly. You show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
John
four uses
John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
You know the way to the place where I am going.”
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- ὁδὸςhodosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: way
Acts
twenty uses
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: journey
You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: paths
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
- ὁδόνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: way
So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who spoke to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: road
and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
- ὁδοὺςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
- ὁδοῖςhodoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Way
About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.
- ὁδοῦ.¶hodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Way
I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Way
I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Way
Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing and said, “When Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Way
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
- ὁδόν.¶hodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: road
Romans
three uses
ruin and misery lie in their wake,
- ὁδοῖςhodoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: paths
and the way of peace they have not known.”
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- ὁδοὶhodoinoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
1 Corinthians
two uses
That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.
- ὁδούςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
1 Thessalonians
one use
Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Hebrews
three uses
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
- ὁδούςhodousnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a way
by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a way
James
three uses
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
- ὁδοῖςhodoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
- ὁδοῦhodounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of the way
2 Peter
four uses
Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
- ὁδὸςhodosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: way
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
- ὁδὸνhodonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: way
Jude
one use
Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
- ὁδῷhodonoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: way
Revelation
two uses
and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- ὁδοίhodoinoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: ways
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
- ὁδὸςhodosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: way
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
