Word study
Going
10 Hebrew and 13 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “going”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “going” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- הָלַךְ hâlakgo, come, walktranslated this way 19 times of its 1,461 uses · Strong’s H1980Verb · Translated: go 338, went 173, walk 116, Come 84Full study and all 1,299 verses →
Genesis 16:8 “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
Exodus 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 14 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
- בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 8 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb · Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201Full study and all 2,217 verses →
- עָבַר âbarpass over, through, by, pass ontranslated this way 7 times of its 542 uses · Strong’s H5674Verb · Translated: pass 62, crossed 57, cross 52, passed 35Full study and all 487 verses →
Deuteronomy 2:18 “Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.
Joshua 6:7 And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
- עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 6 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb · Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42Full study and all 807 verses →
Genesis 28:12 And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
Genesis 38:13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- יָרַד yâradcome or go down, descendtranslated this way 3 times of its 372 uses · Strong’s H3381Verb · Translated: went 56, go 55, come 35, came 26Full study and all 341 verses →
1 Samuel 9:27 As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.
- מוּת mûthdietranslated this way 2 times of its 771 uses · Strong’s H4191Verb · Translated: die 198, died 152, dead 89, put to death 47Full study and all 694 verses →
Exodus 12:33 And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
- עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 2 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb · Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
- יָשַׁע yâshadelivertranslated this way 2 times of its 203 uses · Strong’s H3467Verb · Translated: save 98, saved 40, saves 13, Savior 12Full study and all 198 verses →
Judges 6:36 Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
Judges 6:37 then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
- שָׁאַל shâalask, inquiretranslated this way 2 times of its 165 uses · Strong’s H7592Verb · Translated: ask 31, asked 28, inquired 16, requested 7Full study and all 156 verses →
2 Samuel 14:18 Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ὑπάγω hypágōI go away, departtranslated this way 24 times of its 79 uses · Strong’s G5217Verb · Translated: go 42, going 22, went 2, Get 2Full study and all 75 verses →
Mark 6:31 And He said to them, “Come with Me privately to a solitary place, and let us rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
- πορεύομαι poreúomaiI travel, journey, gotranslated this way 11 times of its 147 uses · Strong’s G4198Verb · Translated: go 59, went 22, going 10, way 8Full study and all 141 verses →
- μέλλω méllōI am about totranslated this way 10 times of its 101 uses · Strong’s G3195Verb · Translated: going 10, come 8, will 8, is about 7Full study and all 99 verses →
- ἀναβαίνω anabaínōI go up, mount, ascendtranslated this way 8 times of its 82 uses · Strong’s G305Verb · Translated: went 27, going 8, ascended 6, go 4Full study and all 78 verses →
- προάγω proágōI lead forth, go beforetranslated this way 3 times of its 20 uses · Strong’s G4254Verb · Translated: went ahead 3, going ahead 3, go on ahead 2, go ahead 2Full study and all 20 verses →
- προβαίνω probaínōI go forwardtranslated this way 2 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s G4260Verb · Translated: well along 3, Going 2Full study and all 5 verses →
- προέρχομαι proérchomaiI go before, precedetranslated this way 2 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s G4281Verb · Translated: went on ahead 2Full study and all 9 verses →
- προσέρχομαι prosérchomaiI come near, consent totranslated this way 2 times of its 85 uses · Strong’s G4334Verb · Translated: came 52, went 13, come 4, draw near 3Full study and all 84 verses →
- καταλύω katalýōI break up, overthrow, unharness, find a lodgingtranslated this way 2 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s G2647Verb · Translated: destroy 4, thrown 3, abolish 2, going to destroy 2Full study and all 16 verses →
- καταβαίνω katabaínōI go down, come downtranslated this way 2 times of its 79 uses · Strong’s G2597Verb · Translated: come 16, went 11, came 8, coming 7Full study and all 79 verses →
- ἔρχομαι érchomaiI come, gotranslated this way 2 times of its 619 uses · Strong’s G2064Verb · Translated: come 193, came 128, coming 65, comes 53Full study and all 584 verses →
- εἰμί eimíI am, existtranslated this way 2 times of its 2,236 uses · Strong’s G1510Verb · Translated: is 523, are 214, was 183, am 83Full study and all 1,922 verses →
- πλανάω planáōI lead astray, deceivetranslated this way 2 times of its 39 uses · Strong’s G4105Verb · Translated: deceived 10, deceive 7, deceives 3, deceiving 2Full study and all 37 verses →
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- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
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- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.