Strong's #4026: periistemi (pronounced per-ee-is'-tay-mee)

from 4012 and 2476; to stand all around, i.e. (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof) to keep away from:--avoid, shun, stand by (round about).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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periistēmi

1) to place around one

2) to stand around

2a) to turn one' s self about for the purpose of avoiding something

2b) to avoid, shun

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4012 and G2476

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

John 11:42: "because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that"
Acts 25:7: "which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous"
2 Timothy 2:16: "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more"
Titus 3:9: "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,"