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 16:25: "I shall show you plainly of the Father."
John 16:26: "will pray the Father for you:"
John 17:9: "I pray for them: I pray not for the"
John 17:9: "them: I pray not for the world, but for"
John 17:9: "the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for"
John 17:20: "Neither pray I for these alone, but for"
John 17:20: "I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on"
John 18:19: "then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of"
John 18:19: "his disciples, and of his doctrine."
John 18:23: "I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if"
John 18:34: "did others tell it thee of me?"
John 19:24: "it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that"
John 21:24: "the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things:"
Acts 1:1: "I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began"
Acts 1:3: "and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:"
Acts 1:16: "the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took"
Acts 2:29: "me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David,"
Acts 2:31: "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his"
Acts 5:24: "heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto"
Acts 7:52: "and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One;"
Acts 8:12: "Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and"
Acts 8:15: "Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy"
Acts 8:34: "and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet"
Acts 8:34: "the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?"
Acts 8:34: "of himself, or of some other man?"
Acts 9:13: "I have heard by many of this man, how much evil"
Acts 10:9: "the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:"
Acts 10:19: "While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit"
Acts 11:22: "Then tidings of these things came unto the ears"
Acts 13:13: "Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to"
Acts 13:29: "they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the"
Acts 15:2: "them, should go up to Jerusalem unto"
Acts 15:2: "them, should go up to Jerusalem unto"
Acts 15:6: "elders came together for to consider of this matter."
Acts 17:32: "said, We will hear thee again of this"
Acts 18:15: "if it be a question of words and names, and"
Acts 18:25: "taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only"
Acts 19:8: "and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God."
Acts 19:23: "there arose no small stir about that way."
Acts 19:25: "with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know"
Acts 19:39: "if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful"
Acts 19:40: "we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no"
Acts 19:40: "there being no cause whereby we may give an account"
Acts 21:8: "And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto"
Acts 21:21: "And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews"
Acts 21:24: "that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but"
Acts 21:25: " As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded"
Acts 22:6: "and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from"
Acts 22:6: "heaven a great light round about me."
Acts 22:10: "and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee"
