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:
John 2:21: "But he spake of the temple of his body."
John 2:25: "not that any should testify of man: for he"
John 3:25: "disciples and the Jews about purifying."
John 5:31: "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is"
John 5:32: "There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that"
John 5:32: "witness which he witnesseth of me is true."
John 5:36: "I do, bear witness of me, that the Father"
John 5:37: "which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his"
John 5:39: "they are they which testify of me."
John 5:46: "me: for he wrote of me."
John 6:41: "Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I"
John 6:61: "his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this"
John 7:7: "it hateth, because I testify of it, that the"
John 7:12: "among the people concerning him: for some"
John 7:13: "no man spake openly of him for fear of the"
John 7:17: "his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be"
John 7:32: "people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees"
John 7:39: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe"
John 8:13: "unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is"
John 8:14: "Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is"
John 8:18: "I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father"
John 8:18: "sent me beareth witness of me."
John 8:26: "to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me"
John 8:46: "you convinceth me of sin? And if I say"
John 9:17: "What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine"
John 9:18: "Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind,"
John 9:21: "ask him: he shall speak for himself."
John 10:13: "and careth not for the sheep."
John 10:25: "name, they bear witness of me."
John 10:33: "answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee"
John 10:33: "thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou,"
John 10:41: "that John spake of this man were true."
John 11:13: "Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they"
John 11:13: "thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep."
John 11:19: "to comfort them concerning their brother."
John 12:6: "that he cared for the poor; but because"
John 12:41: "glory, and spake of him."
John 13:18: "I speak not of you all: I know whom"
John 13:22: "looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake."
John 13:24: "that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake."
John 15:22: "they have no cloak for their sin."
John 15:26: "the Father, he shall testify"
John 15:26: "the Father, he shall testify"
John 16:8: "he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,"
John 16:8: "of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:"
John 16:8: "of righteousness, and of judgment:"
John 16:9: " Of sin, because they believe not on me;"
John 16:10: " Of righteousness, because I go to my Father,"
John 16:11: " Of judgment, because the prince of this world"
John 16:19: "Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and"
