adverb
porrō
Strong’sG4206
far, far off
stem porrō-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
πόρρω,
adv.(in older Attic, πρόσω), [in LXX for רָחוֹק, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4206 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpor'-rho
forwards, i.e. at a distance
Fromadverb from G4253;
King Jamesfar, a great way off.
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
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, Refs 5th c.BC+, Trag. (but falsa lectio for{πρὸ ἕω} in Refs 5th c.BC+; poetry πρόσσω; also πόρσω, Refs 5th c.BC+; later Attic dialect πόρρω Refs 5th c.BC+ should be restored in Refs 5th c.BC+ —Regul. _comparative_ and _superlative_ προσωτέρω, πορρωτέρω, προσωτάτω, πορρωτάτω, see at {προσωτέρω}: poetry comparative πόρσιον Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative πόρσιστα Refs. adverb: (πρό).
A absolutely:
I of Place, generally with a notion of motion, forwards, onwards, π. ἄγειν, φέρειν, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἵπποι πρόσσω μεμαυῖαιRefs; π. κατέκυψεRefs; π. τετραμμένος αἰείRefs 5th c.BC+; παραγγεῖλαι, πέμψαι π., Refs 4th c.BC+; βῆναι, ἕρπειν π., Refs 5th c.BC+; μὴ πόρσω φωνεῖν speak no further, Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἰέναι τοῦ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II of Distance, far off, παπταίνειν τὰ πόρσω Refs 5th c.BC+; πρόσω λεύσσειν to see at a distance, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόρρω ποιεῖν τι leave at a distance, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ σκέλη κινεῖν ταχὺ καὶ π., of a runner, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 too far, καὶ νῦν ἴσως πόρρω ἀποτενοῦμεν [τὸν λόγον] Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 in front, τὰ π. μέρη Refs 2nd c.AD+
III of Time, forward, πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω, see at {ὀπίσω} 11; χρόνος.. ἰὼν πόρσω Refs 5th c.BC+; of continuance, Refs 4th c.BC+; hereafter, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀναβάλλομαι ὡς πόρσιστα as late as possible, Refs; ἤδη πόρρω τῆς ἡμέρας οὔσης far spent, Refs 4th c.BC+; μέχρι πόρρω till late, Refs 4th c.BC+
B with genitive:
B.I of Place, further into, π. τοῦ ποταμοῦ προβαίνειν Refs 5th c.BC+ will go far in wickedness, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἀρετῆς ἀνήκειν to have reached a high point of virtue, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. τέχνης a past master, Refs 5th c.BC+: also with Article, προβήσομαι ἐς τὸ π. τοῦ λόγου Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς τὸ π. μεγάθεος τιμῶνται are honoured to a high point of greatness, i.e. very greatly, Refs
B.II of Distance, far from, οὐ π. τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου Refs 5th c.BC+; πόρρω τέχνης,= οὐκ ἀπὸ τέχνης, i. e. φύσει, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόρρω που τῶν ἐμαυτῷ πεπολιτευμένων far below them, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. σαρκός very far (i. e. different) from, Refs 5th c.BC+; also οὕτω πόρρω εἶ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου so far out in your notions of right, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.III of Time, ὡς πρόσω ἦν τῆς νυκτός far into the night, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.III.2 οὐ π. ἑπτὰ ἡμερέων not longer than.., Refs 5th 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
porrō3×
Matthew 15:8… min timatō, tas de kardias autoiu porrō apechatō apo mu;… their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Mark 7:6… min timatō, tas de kardias autoiu porrō apechatō apo mu;… their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Luke 14:32“far away”ei de mēge, ēti autou porrō arōntou presbeian apostelarantos erōtatō teim pros …And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of …