adverb
porrōthen
Strong’sG4207
from afar, far off
stem porrōthen-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.
πόρρωθεν,
adv.(< τόρρω, q.v.), [in LXX for מֵרָחוֹק and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4207 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpor'-rho-then
from far, or (by implication) at a distance, i.e. distantly
Fromfrom G4206 with adverbial enclitic of source;
King Jamesafar 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Luke 17:12… apantala deka leprois androis, hois stēala porrōthen,… met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance
Hebrews 11:13“from a distance”… pantois, mē labarantois tain epangeliain, alla porrōthen autain horarantois kai aspazerantois, kai homologarantois …All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged …