adverb
pezē
Strong’sG3979
on foot
stem pez-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πεζῇ, v.s. πεζός.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3979 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidped-zay'
foot-wise, i.e. by walking
Fromdative case feminine of a derivative of G4228 (as adverb);
King Jamesa- (on) foot.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(see. πούς):
1 in Poets, especially Epic dialect,
1.a on foot, walking, πεζοί fighters on foot, opposed to those in chariots, πεζοί θ᾽ ἱππῆές τε Refs 8th c.BC+; πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων Refs 8th c.BC+
1.b on land, going by land, opposed to sea-faring, especiallyin Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν νηῒ θοῇ ἢ π. Refs 8th c.BC+
2in Prose, ὁ π. (with or without στρατός),
2.a sometimes infantry, opposed to cavalry (ἡ ἵππος), Refs 5th c.BC+; but,
2.b more frequently land-force, army, opposed to naval force, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ π. variant in Refs 5th c.BC+; στρατιὰ καὶ ναυτικὴ καὶ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ π. κράτιστοι strongest by land, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ π. μάχη battle by land, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τοῖς ναυτικοῖς κινδύνοις, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς π. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of animals, land, opposed to birds and fishes, τὰ π. καὶ τὰ πτηνά beasts and birds, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. καὶ ἔνυδρονRefs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically Refs 3rd c.BC+, of language, prosaic, λόγοι π. proseRefs 1st c.BC+; διὰ πεζῶν [λ.] Refs 1st c.BC+; ἡ π. διάλεκτος Refs 1st c.BC+; ἡ π. alone, Refs 1st c.BC+; π. τις ποιητική, of bombastic prose, Refs 2nd c.AD+; κομιδῇ πεζὸν καὶ χαμαιπετέςRefs 4th c.BC+
II.2 of verse, unaccompanied by music, καὶ πεζὰ καὶ φορμικτά Refs 5th c.BC+; πεζῷ γόῳ· ἄνευ αὐλοῦ ἢ λύρας, Refs 9th c.AD+
II.3 common, ordinary, ἑταῖραι Refs 5th c.BC+
III dative feminine πεζῇ (i.e. ὁδῷ) as adverb,
III.1 on foot, opposed to σὺν ἵππῳ, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.1.b more commonly, by land, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἕπεσθαι to follow by land, Refs 5th c.BC+; καὶ π. καὶ ναυμαχοῦντες by land and by sea, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 without musical accompanimentRefs 5th c.BC+
III.3 regular adverb πεζῶς in prose, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV comparative πεζότερος more like a foot-journey, Refs 1st c.AD+; more like prose, στίχοι π. τῇ συνθέσει Refs 8th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 14:13… kai akouarantois tois ochlois akolouthala auto pezē apo taiu polaiu.… out about it and followed Him on foot from the towns.
Mark 6:33… autoin hupagarōntoin kai epignōskala pollois, kai pezē apo pantaiu taiu polaiu suntrechala ekei …… and recognized them. They ran together on foot from all the towns and arrived …