κυκλόω
kyklóō · G2944 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to go around
To move around an object
ExamplesHebrews 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.
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to surround or be around
To move in such a way as to encircle an object
ExamplesLuke 21:20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
John 10:24 The Jews then surrounded Him and began saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Acts 14:20 But while the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἹερουσαλήμJerusalem 1
- Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 1
- μαθητήςdisciple 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐπίon+ ἡμέραday 1
- ὑπόby, under+ στρατόπεδονarmy 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- סָבַב çâbab · H5437 · to turn, to swing, to turn around
- Hebrew סָבַב denotes the act of going around, surrounding, or encircling something, directly equivalent to Greek κυκλόω's core sense of circular motion or encirclement, reflecting genuine translation equivalence in the Septuagint.
- נָקַף nâqaph · H5362 · to strip off, to cut off, to remove
- Hebrew נָקַף (nâqaph, H5362) and Greek κυκλόω (kyklóō, G2944) both denote the core action of encircling or surrounding something, with נָקַף (nâqaph, H5362) carrying a broader semantic range that extends to destruction ("cut down, destroy") as a consequence of siege encirclement, while κυκλόω (kyklóō, G2944) maintains focus on the spatial act of surrounding itself.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To surround, to be around15.147
- κυκλόω describes surrounding something. Luke 21:20 has Jesus warning, “when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near,” the κυκλουμένην naming this surrounding of Jerusalem by besieging armies.
- To go around15.146
- The verb can also describe going around or encircling in the sense of gathering close. John 10:24 recounts that “the Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, ‘How long will You keep us in suspense?’” the ἐκύκλωσαν naming this gathering around Jesus by the crowd.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κύκλῳ: 1 aorist ἐκύκλωσα; passive, present participle κυκλουμενος; 1 aorist participle…
1. to go round, lead round (Pindar, Euripides, Polybius, others).
2. to surround, encircle, encompass: of persons standing round, τινα, Jn 10:24 (Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading ἐκύκλευσαν (which see)); Acts 14:20; of besiegers (often so in secular authors and in the Sept.), Lk 21:20; Heb 11:30, and R G Tr in Rev 20:9. (Compare: περικυκλόω.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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