"pr. to lead throughout; to declare thoroughly, detail, recount, relate, tell, Mk. 5:16; 9:9; Lk. 8:39; Acts 8:33; Heb. 11:32"
Definition and meaning
pr. to lead throughout; to declare thoroughly, detail, recount, relate, tell, Mk. 5:16; 9:9; Lk. 8:39; Acts 8:33; Heb. 11:32
In the original Greek the word is written: διηγέομαι
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of diegeomai (G1334) across the King James Bible.
And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.
Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
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Common questions
Strong's G1334 (diegeomai) is a Greek word that means: pr. to lead throughout; to declare thoroughly, detail, recount, relate, tell, Mk. 5:16; 9:9; Lk. 8:39; Acts 8:33; Heb. 11:32 It appears 8 times in the King James Bible.
The word diegeomai (G1334) appears 8 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G1334 is diegeomai, a Greek word defined as: pr. to lead throughout; to declare thoroughly, detail, recount, relate, tell, Mk. 5:16; 9:9; Lk. 8:39; Acts 8:33; Heb. 11:32. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
diegeomai is a Greek word found in the New Testament.