περιΐστημι
periḯstēmi · G4026 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to stand around, to be around
To stand around someone or to encircle
ExamplesJohn 11:42 “But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
Acts 25:7 After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many, and serious, charges against him which they could not prove,
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to avoid, to keep oneself from doing
To keep oneself away from being involved in some activity
Examples2 Timothy 2:16 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are useless and worthless.
How it’s used In 3 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 3 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 5 groups
- γενεαλογίαgenealogy 1
- ἔριςstrife 1
- ζήτησιςdispute, controversy 1
- κενοφωνίαfoolish talk 1
- μάχηsevere clash 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To avoid, to keep oneself from doing13.157
- περιΐστημι can denote deliberately steering clear of something harmful. Paul instructs Timothy to shun empty talk that leads further into godlessness: “avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness” (2 Timothy 2:16), and repeats the same instruction to Titus regarding foolish controversies: “avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless” (Titus 3:9).
- To stand around, to be around17.4
- Literally, the verb describes people standing in a circle around someone or something. John records those present at Lazarus's tomb this way: “because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me” (John 11:42).
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 2 aorist περιεστην; perfect participle περιεστώς; present middle imperative 2 person…
1. in the present, imperfect, future, 1 aorist, active, to place around (one).
2. in the perfect, pluperfect, 2 aorist active, and the tenses of the middle, to stand around: Jn 11:42; Acts 25:7 (in L T Tr WH with an accusative; cf. Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 12). Middle to turn oneself about namely, for the purpose of avoiding something, hence, to avoid, shun (Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 12; 10, 10, 4; b. j. 2, 8, 6; Antoninus 3,4; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 4, 59; Athen. 15, p. 675 e.; (Diogenes Laërtius 9, 14; Jamblichus, vit. Pythagoras 31 (p. 392, Kiessl. edition); Sextus Empiricus; joined with φεύγειν, Josephus, Antiquities 1, 1, 4; with ἐκτρέπεσθαι, Lucian, Hermot. § 86; Hesychius περιΐστασο. Ἀποφευγε, ἀνατρεπε; (cf. furher, D'Orville's Chariton, Reiske edition, p. 282); this use of the verb is censured by Lucian, soloec. 5): in the N. T. so with an accusative of the thing (cf. Winer's Grammar, the passage cited), 2 Tim 2:16; Tit 3:9.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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