περίχωρος
períchōros · G4066 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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surrounding region
An area or region around or near some central or focal point
ExamplesMatthew 3:5 At that time Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan;
Matthew 14:35 And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent word into all that surrounding region and brought to Him all who were sick;
Mark 1:28 Immediately the news about Him spread everywhere into all the surrounding region of Galilee.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἸορδάνηςJordan 2
- ΓαλιλαίαGalilee 1
- Γεργεσηνόςa Gerasene 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκεῖνοςthat, that one, there 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκπορεύομαιto go out, to come out 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰςto 9
- ἐνin 2
- κατάaccording to, against, down 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- πλῆθοςmultitude, crowd 1
- τόποςplace 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 1 word
- כִּכָּר kikkâr · H3603 · loaf, plain
- כִּכָּר (kikkâr, H3603) כִּכָּר denotes a geographical plain or district (its 'plain' sense), which the LXX translators rendered with περίχωρος (períchōros, G4066) περίχωρος when referring to surrounding regions like the Jordan plain; the Hebrew term's other meanings ('loaf', 'talent') are unrelated to this specific cross-linguistic equivalence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Surrounding region1.80
- περίχωρος names the district or country lying around a particular place. Matthew describes the reach of John the Baptist's ministry: “Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan” (Matthew 3:5).
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon περίχωρον (περί and χῶρος), lying round about, neighboring (Plutarch, Aelian, Dio…
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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