noun · neuter
peratem
Strong’sG4009
a boundary, limit, an end
stem perat-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πέρας, -ατος, τό
(< πέρα, beyond), [in LXX chiefly for קֵץ, קָצֶה and cognate forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4009 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidper'-as
an extremity
Fromfrom the same as G4008;
King Jamesend, ut-(ter-)most participle
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect πεῖραρ (which see), ᾰτος, τό, end, limit, boundary,
I in local sense, ἐκ περάτων γᾶς Refs 7th c.BC+; τὸ π. tip, τοῦ αἰδοίου Refs 4th c.BC+; [τῆς ῥινός] Refs 2nd c.AD+; τισὶ τὰ π. ἀλγέει the extremities, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IIgenerally, limit, either opposed to ἀρχή, Refs 4th c.BC+, or including it, τελευτή γε καὶ ἀρχὴ π. ἑκάστου Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἔχειν, ={περαίνεσθαι}, come to an end, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπιθεῖναι τῇ γενέσει π. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 perfection of a thing, τὸ π. τῆς μαγειρικῆς.. εὑρηκέναι Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2.b Philos., τὸ τῶν ἀγαθῶν π., τὰ π. τῆς ἡδονῆς, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 end, object, εὐχῆς, ἐλπίδος, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 Philos., that which limits or has limits, opposed to τὸ ἄπειρον, Refs 5th c.BC+
III final decision, [οἱ] τὸ π. ἔχοντες τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἁπάντων δικαίων the supreme court, from which there is no appeal, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV πέρας as adverb, at length, at last, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; but also, τὸ π. 'to cut a long story short', Refs 4th c.BC+. [In Aeolic dialect the first syllable is short in Refs 7th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | peratem1×πέρας | perateim |
| of, belonging to genitive | perateu | perateiu2×περάτων |
| to, for dative | perate | peratei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
perate is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
peratem“end”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Hebrews 6:16… megoterou omnualō, kai pantau autoi antilogiau peratem eis bebaiōsian tos horkos;… oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.
perateiu“ends”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 12:42… katakrinati autan; hoti erchata ek teiu perateiu tau gēau akouara tan sofian Solomōnou, …… it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the …
Luke 11:31… katakrinati autoin; hoti erchata ek teiu perateiu tau gēau akouara tan sofian Solomōnou, …… them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the …
perateim1×
Romans 10:18… tos fthongos autoiu, kai eis teim perateim tau oikoumenau teim rēmeim autoiu.… the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”