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:
Acts 22:18: "they will not receive thy testimony concerning me."
Acts 23:6: "a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead"
Acts 23:11: "for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so"
Acts 23:15: "as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we,"
Acts 23:20: "they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly."
Acts 23:29: "Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but"
Acts 24:8: "thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we"
Acts 24:10: "nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:"
Acts 24:13: "Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me."
Acts 24:21: "Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing"
Acts 24:21: "standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I"
Acts 24:22: "heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them,"
Acts 24:24: "and heard him concerning the faith in Christ."
Acts 24:25: "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and"
Acts 25:9: "Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?"
Acts 25:15: " About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests"
Acts 25:16: "face to face, and have license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him."
Acts 25:18: " Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation"
Acts 25:19: "questions against him of their own superstition, and of"
Acts 25:19: "their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom"
Acts 25:20: "because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether"
Acts 25:20: "go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters."
Acts 25:24: "with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude"
Acts 25:26: " Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord."
Acts 26:2: "this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of"
Acts 26:7: "and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king"
Acts 26:26: "the king knoweth of these things, before whom also"
Acts 28:7: "In the same quarters were possessions"
Acts 28:15: "when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet"
Acts 28:21: "letters out of Judea concerning thee, neither any of the"
Acts 28:21: "spake any harm of thee."
Acts 28:22: "thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know"
Acts 28:23: "persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the"
Acts 28:31: "and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ,"
Romans 1:3: " Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which"
Romans 8:3: "of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in"
Romans 14:12: "of us shall give account of himself to God."
Romans 15:14: "myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that"
Romans 15:21: "To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they"
1 Corinthians 1:4: "my God always on your behalf, for the grace"
1 Corinthians 1:11: "For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by"
1 Corinthians 7:1: "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not"
1 Corinthians 7:25: "Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "but hath power over his own will, and hath so"
1 Corinthians 8:1: "Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge."
1 Corinthians 8:4: " As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol"
1 Corinthians 12:1: "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant."
1 Corinthians 16:1: "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as"
1 Corinthians 16:12: " As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to"
2 Corinthians 9:1: "For as touching the ministering to the saints,"
