ὁδός

hodos · way, road

Greek word · Strong’s number G3598 · appears 101 times in the Bible

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What it means

hodos (ὁδός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “way, road”.

Journey; also way of life.

How to say it

ho·dos

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

The route by which one goes from one place to another, or the trip itself.
A way of life; "the Way" were Jesus' followers.

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

Word study

Way: the road one travels and the journey; figuratively, the manner of living or acting. Thayer: a way, path; a journey; a way of thinking and acting.

The road one goes along Matthew 13:4 Luke 24:32
“Prepare the way of the Lord” Matthew 3:3
The narrow gate and the way that leads to life Matthew 7:13 Matthew 7:14
“I am the way” John 14:6
“The Way”: the name of the group of those who followed Jesus Acts 9:2 Acts 24:14

How we translate it

“Way” 55 times, “road” 21, “ways” 9, “path” 6, “journey” 5, “roads” 4. “Road” or “path” for the physical road (Luke 24:32; Matthew 13:4), “way” for the figurative sense. It takes a capital letter where in Acts it is the name of Jesus' followers (“of the Way”, Acts 9:2), because there it works as a name.

How it is translated

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

way ×55
road ×21
ways ×9
path ×6
journey ×5
roads ×4
paths ×1

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

Matthew 2:12
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another way.
Matthew 3:3
For this is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, when he says, “A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”
Matthew 4:15
“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
Matthew 5:25
Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
Matthew 7:13
“Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it;
Matthew 7:14
for narrow is the gate and constricted the way that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Matthew 8:28
And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two men possessed by demons met him, coming out of the tombs, so violent that no one could pass along that road.
Matthew 10:5
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, saying, “Do not go off onto a road of the nations, and do not enter into a town of Samaritans;
Matthew 10:10
no bag for the road, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the worker is worthy of his food.
Matthew 11:10
This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’
Matthew 13:4
And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up.
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; this is the one sown along the path.
Matthew 15:32
And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been staying with me three days already and they do not have anything to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
Matthew 20:17
And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
Matthew 20:30
And look, two blind men sitting beside the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”
Matthew 21:8
And most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and he says to it, “May no more fruit come from you, forever.” And the fig tree withered immediately.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and you, even when you saw it, did not even regret it afterward so as to believe him.
Matthew 22:9
So go to the places where the roads go out of the city, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding feast.’
Matthew 22:10
And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was filled with guests.
Matthew 22:16
And they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not care about anyone, for you do not look at the face of people.
Mark 1:2
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way;
Mark 1:3
a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”
Mark 2:23
And it happened that on the Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and his disciples began to make their way, plucking the heads of grain.
Mark 4:4
And it happened as he sowed that some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Mark 4:15
And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; and when they hear, at once Satan comes and takes away the word that has been sown in them.
Mark 6:8
And he instructed them that they should take nothing for the journey except a staff only; no bread, no bag, no copper coins in their belts,
Mark 8:3
and if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from far away.”
Mark 8:27
And Jesus went out, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he was asking his disciples, saying to them, “Who do people say that I am?”
Mark 9:33
And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house, he was asking them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
Mark 9:34
But they were silent; for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
Mark 10:17
And as he was going out on the way, a man ran up and knelt before him and was asking him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:32
And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him:
Mark 10:46
And they come to Jericho. And as he was leaving from Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.
Mark 10:52
And Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” And at once he regained his sight and was following him on the way.
Mark 11:8
And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
Mark 12:14
And they came and say to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and you do not care about anyone; for you do not look at the face of people, but in truth you teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay tax to Caesar, or not? Should we pay, or should we not pay?”
Luke 1:76
And you too, child, will be called prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 2:44
But supposing him to be in the caravan, they went a day’s journey and were searching for him among the relatives and the acquaintances;

And 61 more times.