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Greek adverb · G3979

πεζῇ

pezeiped-zay'

on foot; Opp. to going by sea; As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ)

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: pezēi

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3979is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3979

foot-wise, i.e. by walking

The King James renders it: a- (on) foot.

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

pezei is rendered "on foot; Opp. to going by sea; As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ)". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "on foot".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 14:13When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. But the crowds found out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.

The first use

When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. But the crowds found out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.

Matthew 14:13πεζῇ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Matthew.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: on foot, and Opp. to going by sea, and As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ).

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
on footMat.14:13 (WH, mg., R, txt.).Tagged as
  • on foot2
WhereMatthew 14:13When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place…
Opp. to going by seaby landTagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 14:13When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place…
As adv., πεζῇ (sc. ὁδῷ)on foot or by landTagged aslisted under the tableWhereMark 6:33But many people saw them leaving and recognized them…

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 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • πεζῇ2

The grammar of each form

  • adverb2ADV

Matthew

one use
  • When Jesus heard about John, He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. But the crowds found out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.

    Matthew 14:13

    • πεζῇpezeaadverbtagged: on foot

Mark

one use
  • But many people saw them leaving and recognized them. They ran together on foot from all the towns and arrived before them.

    Mark 6:33

    • πεζῇpezeaadverbtagged: on foot

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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