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κύκλῳ

kýklōi · G2945 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. around, in a circle

    A position completely encircling an area or object

    Examples

    Mark 6:6 And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He was going around the villages, teaching.

    Mark 6:36 send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

    Luke 9:12 Now the day was ending, and the twelve came up and said to Him, “Dismiss the crowd, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get something to eat; because here, we are in a secluded place.”

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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 1 word
סָבִיב çâbîyb · H5439 · round about, around, on every side
Greek κύκλῳ and Hebrew סָבִיב both denote spatial encirclement or surrounding position, functioning as adverbial expressions meaning 'around/round about' with nearly identical semantic scope across their respective corpora.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Around, in a circle83.19
κύκλῳ describes being arranged in a circle or all around. Mark 3:34 recounts that Jesus, “looking around at those who were sitting around Him in a circle, said, ‘Behold My mother and My brothers!’” the κύκλῳ naming this circle of those seated around Him.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κύκλῳkýklōi · G2945κυκλόω kyklóō · G2944 · to surround, to be around · 5×κυκλόθεν kyklóthen · G2943 · around, in a circle, outside · 3×περικυκλόω perikyklóō · G4033 · to surround, to be around · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (dative of the substantive κύκλος, a ring, circle (cf. English cycle)); from Homer down;…
(dative of the substantive κύκλος, a ring, circle (cf. English cycle)); from Homer down; the Sept. times without number for סָבִיב, also for מִסָּבִיב and סָבִיב סָבִיב; in a circle, around, round about, on air sides: Mk 3:34; Mk 6:6; οἱ κυκλωαγροι, the circumjacent country (see ἀγρός, c.), Mk 6:36 (here WH (rejected) marginal reading gives ἔγγιστα); Lk 9:12; ἀπό Ἰερουσαλήμ καί κύκλῳ, and in the region around, Rom 15:19; τίνος, around anything (Xenophon, Cyril 4, 5, 5; Polybius 4, 21, 9, others; Gen 35:5; Ex 7:24, etc.): Rev 4:6; Rev 5:11 (here R κυκλόθεν); .

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Around, About, Outside8 occurrences

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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