adjective
perichōras
Strong’sG4066
neighboring
stem perichōr-9 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books4 of 26 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.
περί-χωρος, -ον,
[in LXX: chiefly (ἡ π.) for כִּכָּר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4066 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
round about a place: οἱ π. the people about, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ π. (i.e. γῆ) the country round about, LXX+NT; τὰ π. Refs 4th c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | perichōros | perichōras1×περίχωρος | perichōrem | perichōrois | perichōrais | perichōreim |
| object accusative | perichōron | perichōran4×περίχωρον | perichōroin | perichōrain | ||
| direct address vocative | perichōror | perichōrar | perichōroir | perichōrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | perichōrou | perichōrau3×περιχώρου | perichōreu | perichōroiu | perichōraiu | perichōreiu |
| to, for dative | perichōro | perichōra1×περιχώρῳ | perichōre | perichōroi | perichōrai | perichōrei |
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
perichōr 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
perichōras“district around”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 3:5“district around”… pantas tas Ioudaias kai pantas tas perichōras tou Iordanou,… Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
perichōran“surrounding region”objectaccusative singular4×
Matthew 14:35… topou ekeinou apostelala eis holan tan perichōran ekeinan, kai prosferala auto pantoin toin …… they sent word to all the surrounding region. People brought all the sick to …
Mark 1:28“surrounding region”… autou euthuos pantachou eis holan tan perichōran tau Galilaiau.And the news about Jesus spread quickly through the whole region of Galilee.
Luke 3:3kai erchata eis pantan perichōran tou Iordanou kērussarōntos baptismem metanoiau eis …He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of …
Acts 14:6“surrounding country”… Lukaoniau Lustran kai Derban kai tan perichōran,… cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
perichōrau“surrounding region”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Luke 4:14… kai fēmas exerchata kata holau tau perichōrau peri autou.… news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region.
Luke 4:37… peri autou eis panton topon tau perichōrau.… news about Jesus spread throughout the surrounding region.
Luke 8:37“surrounding region”… erōtata auton hapantem tem plēthem tau perichōrau toiu Gerasēnoiu aperchara apo autoiu, hoti …Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great …
perichōra“surrounding country”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 7:17“surrounding country”… Ioudaia peri autou kai panta ta perichōra.… the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding region.