Greek verb · G4199
πορθέω
portheopor-theh'-o
to lay waste
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: porthéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4199is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4199
to ravage (figuratively)
The King James renders it: destroy, waste.
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
portheo is rendered "to lay waste". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 9:21All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
Acts 9:21πορθήσας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having caused havoc1
- he was destroying1
- was destroying1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἐπόρθει1
- ἐπόρθουν1
- πορθήσας1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-IAI-1S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
Acts
one use
All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
- πορθήσαςporthesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having caused havoc
Galatians
two uses
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
- ἐπόρθουνeporthounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: was destroying
They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
- ἐπόρθειeportheiverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was destroying
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.