Journey (Noun and Verb), Journeyings
Journey (Noun and Verb), Journeyings
“a way, path, road,” used of a traveler’s way, a “journey,” is rendered “journey” in Mat 10:13; Mar 6:8; Luk 2:44, “a day’s journey” (probably to Beeroth, six miles north of Jerusalem); Luk 9:3; Luk 11:6; Act 1:12, “a Sabbath day’s journey,” i.e., the journey which a Jew was allowed to take on the Sabbath, viz., about 2,000 yards or cubits (estimates vary). The regulation was not a Mosaic enactment, but a rabbinical tradition, based upon an exposition of Exo 16:29, and a comparison of the width of the suburb of a Levitical city as enjoined in Num 35:4-5, and the distance between the ark and the people at the crossing of the Jordan, Jos 3:4. In regard to Act 1:12, there is no discrepancy between this and Luk 24:50, where the RV rightly translates by “over against Bethany,” which does not fix the exact spot of the Ascension. See HIGHWAY, WAY.
“a wayfaring, journeying” (No. 1, and poros, “a way, a passage”), is used of the Lord’s journey to Samaria, Joh 4:6, and of Paul’s “journeyings,” 2Co 11:26. Cp. B, No. 3.
Note: In Luk 13:22 the noun poreia, “a journey, a going” (cp. poros, No. 2, above), is used with the verb poieo, “to make,” with the meaning “to journey,” lit., “making (for Himself, Middle Voice) a way,” “journeying.” In Jam 1:11, “ways.” See WAY.
is used in the Middle Voice in the NT, signifying “to go, proceed, go on one’s way;” it is translated by the verb “to journey” in Act 9:3; Act 22:6, “as I made (my) journey;” Act 26:13; Rom 15:24 (1st part), AV, “I take my journey,” RV, “I go” (for the 2nd part, “in my journey,” see No. 2). See GO, No. 1.
“to carry over,” used in the Passive Voice with the meaning “to pass by, to journey through,” is translated “in my journey,” in Rom 15:24, lit., “journeying through;” in Luk 18:36, RV, “going by” (AV “pass by”). See GO, No. 4.
“to travel, journey” (akin to A, No. 2), is found in Act 10:9.
“to be on the way, journey” (from hodos, “a way”), the simplest form of the verbs denoting “to journey,” is used in the parable of the good samaritan, Luk 10:33.
sun, “with,” and No. 4, “to journey with,” occurs in Act 9:7. In the Sept., Zec 8:21.
“to help on one’s way” (eu, “well,” and hodos), is used in the Passive Voice with the meaning “to have a prosperous journey;” so the AV of Rom 1:10; the RV, “I may be prospered” rightly expresses the metaphorical use which the verb acquired, without reference to a “journey;” see 1Co 16:2; 3Jo 1:2.
“to send before or forth” (pro, “before,” pempo, “to send”), also means “to set forward on a journey, to escort;” in 1Co 16:6, “may set (me) forward on my journey,” RV [AV, “may bring (me) etc.”]; so Tit 3:13; 3Jo 1:6. See ACCOMPANY, CONDUCT, WAY.
denotes “to go on a journey to another country, go abroad,” Mat 21:33; Mat 25:14-15; Mar 12:1; Luk 15:13; Luk 20:9. See COUNTRY.
Note: For the adjective apodemos, Mar 13:34, AV, “taking a far journey,” RV, “sojourning in another country,” see COUNTRY.