lead one upon his way, guide, c. acc. pers., Ps.-Phoc. 24, A. Pr. 728, Act.Ap. 8.31, X.Eph. 1.9 : abs., E. HF 1402 ; φύσιος εἰς τὸ ἄριστον -εούσης Hp. Lex 2 :—Pass., Plu. Frig. 2.954b, Vett.Val. 359.30 :— also ὁδηγ-ετέω, Them. Or. 11.151c.
The corpus record
ὁδηγ-έω
odegeo
lead, upon his way, guide
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Where it lives
- Psalmi 26 · 7.6/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
- Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
- Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
- Exodus 3 · 1.27/10k
- Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
- Job 1 · 0.75/10k
- Josue (cod. Vat.) 1 · 0.75/10k
- Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
lead, upon his way, guide
In the wild
- ὁδηγήσουσι · hodēgēsousi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 728
- ὁδηγοῦσαν · hodēgousan Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4534)
- ὁδηγήσω · hodēgēsō Euripides, Heracles 1402
- ὁδηγεῖ · hodēgei Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.55.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1089)
- ὁδηγήσει · hodēgēsei New Testament, Acts 8.31 (DIORISIS sentence 265)
- ὁδηγήσει · hodēgēsei New Testament, John 16.13 (DIORISIS sentence 880)
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Where it came from
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