φορέω (forέō) — to wear / to dress / to be

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: φέρω

Sense 1: to wear, to dress

Semantic entry: 49.11

Semantic domains: Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning

Definition: to put on and to wear clothes

Show passage in OET: MAT 11:8

OET-RV MAT 11:8

8 Yes, I’m asking you all, what did you go out to see? A man wearing fine clothes? People in palaces wear fine clothes.

OET-LV MAT 11:8

8 But you _all _came _out to _see what?
A_man having _been _dressed in fine clothes?
Behold, the ones wearing the fine clothes in the houses of _the kings

Show passage in OET: JHN 19:5

OET-RV JHN 19:5

5 So they led Yeshua out wearing the thorny crown and the kingly robe, and Pilatos said, “Look. Here’s the man.”

OET-LV JHN 19:5

5 Therefore the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) came _out outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe.
And he _is _saying to _them:
Behold, the man.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 11:8

JHN: OET JHN 19:5

JAM: OET JAM 2:3

Sense 2: to be, to bear

Semantic entry: 13.2

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: to be in a particular state or condition

Show passage in OET: CO1 15:49

OET-RV CO1 15:49

49 And just like we carry the image of that earthly man, we should also bear the image of that heavenly man.

OET-LV CO1 15:49

49 And as we _bore the image of _the of_the_earthy one, we _may _bear also the image of _the heavenly one.

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Sense 3: to have the power to punish

Semantic entry: 38.3

Semantic domains: Punish, Reward

Subdomains: Punish

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to bear the sword) to have the capacity or authority to punish

Collocations: φορέω τὴν μάχαιραν

Show passage in OET: ROM 13:4

OET-RV ROM 13:4

4 because they’re God’s servants for your good. But if you’re doing evil, then you should rightly be afraid, because the authorities aren’t armed without reason—they’re God’s servants to dispense severe anger to people doing evil.

OET-LV ROM 13:4

4 For/Because of_god the_servant he _is to _you for the good.
But if the evil you _may _be _practicing, be _fearing, because/for not vainly the sword he _is _bearing, For/Because of_god a_servant he _is, an_avenging for severe _anger to _the one the evil doing.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

φορέω

Form 1

Sense 1: to wear, to dress

Sense 2: to be, to bear

Sense 3: to have the power to punish