περικυκλόω
perikyklóō · G4033 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to surround, to be around
To move in such a way as to encircle an object
ExamplesLuke 19:43 “For the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κρύπτωto hide 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
- Standard Hebrew equivalent for the concept of encircling or surrounding; frequently used in military siege contexts parallel to περικυκλόω's usage in Luke 19:43
- נָקַף nâqaph · H5362 · to strip off, to cut off, to remove
- Hebrew verb for surrounding or encompassing, often in hostile military contexts; semantically very close to περικυκλόω's sense of blockading
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To surround, to be around15.147
- περικυκλόω describes completely encircling a location, most often in a military sense. Jesus foretells Jerusalem's fate: “the days will come upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side” (Luke 19:43, where this verb is rendered “surround”).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon περικύκλῳ: future περικυκλώσω; to encircle, compass about: of a city (besieged), Lk…
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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