metabainō · move on, pass

What it means

metabainō (μεταβαίνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “move on, pass”.

Pass from one place to another, leave.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To shift from one place to another.
2. To go from a place.
3. To cross from death to life.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Move ×4
• moving on ×3
• Leave ×1
• has passed ×1
• he moved on ×1
• pass ×1
• we have passed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Luke×1
• John×3
• Acts×1
• 1 John×1

• Matthew 8:34

  And look, the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to move away from their region.

• Matthew 11:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, that he moved on from there to teach and proclaim in their towns.

• Matthew 12:9

  And moving on from there, he went into their synagogue.

• Matthew 15:29

  And moving on from there, Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee; and going up onto the mountain, he was sitting there.

• Matthew 17:20

  And he says to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

• Luke 10:7

  And remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things offered by them; for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

• John 5:24

  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

• John 7:3

  So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples too may see your works that you are doing.

• John 13:1

  Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

• Acts 18:7

  And moving on from there, he went into the house of a certain man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

• 1 John 3:14

  We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death.

And 1 more times.