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Strong's #4012: peri (pronounced per-ee')

from the base of 4008; properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period):--(there-)about, above, against, at, on behalf of, X and his company, which concern, (as) concerning, for, X how it will go with, ((there-, where-)) of, on, over, pertaining (to), for sake, X (e-)state, (as) touching, (where-)by (in), with. In comparative, it retains substantially the same meaning of circuit (around), excess (beyond), or completeness (through).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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peri

1) about, concerning, on account of, because of, around, near

Part of Speech: preposition

Relation: from the base of G4008

Citing in TDNT: 6:53, 827




Usage:

This word is used 331 times:

Luke 1:1: "have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,"
Luke 1:4: "the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed."
Luke 2:17: "And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them"
Luke 2:17: "saying which was told them concerning this child."
Luke 2:18: "all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the"
Luke 2:27: "child Jesus, to do for him after the custom"
Luke 2:33: "marveled at those things which were spoken of him."
Luke 2:38: "likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for"
Luke 3:15: "in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;"
Luke 3:19: "being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's"
Luke 3:19: "Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod"
Luke 4:10: "For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep"
Luke 4:14: "and there went out a fame of him through all the"
Luke 4:37: "And the fame of him went out into every place"
Luke 4:38: "and they besought him for her."
Luke 5:14: "priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses"
Luke 5:15: "But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great"
Luke 7:3: "And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders"
Luke 7:17: "And this rumor of him went forth throughout all"
Luke 7:18: "of John showed him of all these things."
Luke 7:24: "unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into"
Luke 7:27: "This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send"
Luke 9:9: "who is this, of whom I hear such things?"
Luke 9:11: "them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and"
Luke 9:45: "they feared to ask him of that saying."
Luke 10:40: "But Martha was encumbered about much serving, and came"
Luke 10:41: "thou art careful and troubled about many things:"
Luke 11:53: "him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:"
Luke 12:26: "be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?"
Luke 13:1: "some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood"
Luke 13:8: "year also, till I shall dig about it, and"
Luke 16:2: "How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy"
Luke 17:2: "that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and"
Luke 19:37: "God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;"
Luke 21:5: "And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned"
Luke 22:32: "But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith"
Luke 22:37: "for the things concerning me have an end."
Luke 22:49: "When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him,"
Luke 23:8: "of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped"
Luke 24:4: "it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two"
Luke 24:14: "they talked together of all these things which had happened."
Luke 24:19: "they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was"
Luke 24:27: "the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:44: "in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me."
John 1:7: "a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all"
John 1:8: "but was sent to bear witness of that Light."
John 1:15: "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This"
John 1:22: "us. What sayest thou of thyself?"
John 1:30: "This is he of whom I said, After me"
John 1:47: "him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed,"









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