Definition

to traverse (literally)

Etymology

from G1223 (διά) and G2064 (ἔρχομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• come
• depart
• go (about
• abroad
• everywhere
• over
• through
• throughout)
• pass (by
• pierce through
• travel
• walk through

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.