adjective
perikratos
Strong’sG4031
having full power over, mastering
stem perikrat-once in the New Testament1 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.
**† περι-κρατής, -ές,
[in LXX: Da TH Sus 39 A*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4031 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
grasping, tenacious, γαμφηλαί Refs 3rd c.BC+; having full command over, π. γενέσθαι τῆς σκάφης NT+2nd c.AD+; compare περικρεμής.
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 | perikratos | perikratas | perikratem | perikratois1×περικρατεῖς | perikratais | perikrateim |
| object accusative | perikraton | perikratan | perikratoin | perikratain | ||
| direct address vocative | perikrator | perikratar | perikratoir | perikratair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | perikratou | perikratau | perikrateu | perikratoiu | perikrataiu | perikrateiu |
| to, for dative | perikrato | perikrata | perikrate | perikratoi | perikratai | perikratei |
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
perikrat 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
perikratois“under control”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 27:16“under control”… tinem hupotrecharantois kalorōntem Kaudem ischuana molis perikratois genera tau skafau,… lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.