periochas

Strong’sG4042

a passage of Scripture

stem perioch-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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-οχή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< περιέχω), [in LXX for מְצוּדָה, מָצוֹר, etc.;]

1. compass, circumference.

2. a portion circumscribed, a section: Ac 8:32.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4042 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidper-ee-okh-ay'

a being held around, i.e. (concretely) a passage (of Scripture, as circumscribed)

Fromfrom G4023;

King Jamesplace.

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

περιοχ-ή, ἡ,
(περιέχω) a containing, enclosing, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 compass, circumference, σφαίρας Refs 1st c.AD+; opposed to μῆκος, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἡ ἐκτὸς π., of the body, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ τὰς τῶν ἐθνῶν π. according to their extent, Refs; mass, body, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀκατάληπτος π., of the world, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 generally, compass, extent, ἡ π. τῆς ὅλης περιβολῆς καὶ πράξεως Refs 2nd c.BC+; aggregate, Refs 5th c.AD+
3.b content of a definition, etc., Refs 1st c.AD+
3.c summary, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σύντομος π. Refs 5th c.AD+; periochae, title of summaries of books of Livy.
4 inclusion, Refs 2nd c.AD+; κατὰ περιοχήν τινος including.., Refs 1st c.AD+
II portion circumscribed or marked off, section of a book, NT+1st c.BC+
III pod, husk, shell, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 fence, fortification, LXX; πόλις περιοχῆςLXX
IV straitness, ={θλῖψις},{συνοχή}, Refs 9th c.AD+; especially siege, LXX; ἦλθεν πόλις ἐν περιοχῇLXX; ὕδωρ περιοχῆςLXX
V=περιπέτεια, Refs 9th 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.

passage1×

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 nominative	periochas1×περιοχὴ	periochais
object accusative	periochan	periochain
direct address vocative	periochar	periochair
of, belonging to genitive	periochau	periochaiu
to, for dative	periocha	periochai

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

periochstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

periocha 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

periochas“passage”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 8:32tas de periochas tau grafau han anagnōskate ate houtas; …The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like …