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G1684 means to get into or embark, especially into a boat. In John it is a movement word for people entering the next scene by water: the disciples cross the lake in darkness, the crowd pursues Jesus after the feeding, and Peter returns to fishing before the restoration breakfast.
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G1684 means to get into or embark, especially into a boat. In John it is a movement word for people entering the next scene by water: the disciples cross the lake in darkness, the crowd pursues Jesus after the feeding, and Peter returns to fishing before the restoration breakfast.
The BSB source-word alignment has 16 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include got into (5), got (4), [Jesus] got (1), [Jesus] got into (1), get (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 8:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (5), Matthew (5), John (3), Luke (3).
G1684 means to get into or embark, especially into a boat. In John it is a movement word for people entering the next scene by water: the disciples cross the lake in darkness, the crowd pursues Jesus after the feeding, and Peter returns to fishing before the restoration breakfast. The word is not a theology of boats. Its pastoral value is that it marks human movement, effort, and pursuit, often before Jesus reveals what human movement cannot supply by itself. People can get into the boat and still need the presence, word, and provision of Christ.
For John-focused use, the safest path is to let the immediate passage set the claim, then let the word clarify how the scene moves toward witness, faith, resistance, or worship.
G1684 marks boat-entry scenes in John. The word helps readers see movement and effort before Jesus' revealing presence in John 6 and His restoring provision in John 21.
Got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus had not yet gone out to them.
The disciples get into the boat and begin crossing in darkness before Jesus comes to them on the sea.
So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum to look for Him.
The crowd gets into boats to pursue Jesus after the sign and the feeding. Movement does not automatically equal understanding.
Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
Peter and the others get into the boat for a night of fishing that yields nothing until Jesus speaks from the shore.
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Greek word. to climb
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 18 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
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How this verb appears across 17 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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ἐμβαίνω is built from these roots:
John's boat scenes are not merely travel notes. The disciples get into a boat and enter darkness before Jesus comes to them. The crowd gets into boats and searches for Jesus, but the following discourse will expose mixed motives. Peter and the others get into a boat and work through the night without success until the risen Jesus stands on the shore. The verb itself simply marks embarking, but the repeated movement lets teachers ask what human effort can and cannot do.
John is not against movement, labor, or pursuit. He shows that movement becomes faithful only when it is brought under the presence and word of Jesus.
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To get into or embark is a reviewed display gloss for G1684. In this John-focused companion, the local discourse foregrounding data shows 3 John use(s), with tense patterns summarized as aorist 3. Use these grammar signals as support for reading the passage, not as a replacement for context.
The broader Scripture connection should remain modest: movement into the boat and human effort is visible in the cited passages, while the full theological claim must come from each passage's context rather than from the word alone.
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