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:
2 Corinthians 10:8: "I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which"
Ephesians 6:18: "thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for"
Ephesians 6:22: "the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort"
Philippians 1:27: "or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in"
Philippians 2:19: "I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state."
Philippians 2:20: "who will naturally care for your state."
Philippians 2:23: "presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me."
Colossians 1:3: "Christ, praying always for you,"
Colossians 2:1: "what great conflict I have for you, and for them at"
Colossians 4:3: "Withal praying also for us, that God would open"
Colossians 4:8: "the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort"
Colossians 4:10: "Mark, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if"
1 Thessalonians 1:2: "We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention"
1 Thessalonians 1:9: "For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had"
1 Thessalonians 3:2: "and to comfort you concerning your faith:"
1 Thessalonians 3:9: "thanks can we render to God again for you, for all"
1 Thessalonians 4:6: "the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also"
1 Thessalonians 4:9: "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:"
1 Thessalonians 4:13: "have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not,"
1 Thessalonians 5:1: "But of the times and the seasons, brethren,"
1 Thessalonians 5:25: "Brethren, pray for us."
2 Thessalonians 1:3: "to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is"
2 Thessalonians 1:11: "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our"
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of"
2 Thessalonians 3:1: "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word"
1 Timothy 1:7: "what they say, nor whereof they affirm."
1 Timothy 1:19: "which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:"
1 Timothy 6:4: "nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof"
1 Timothy 6:21: "some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with"
2 Timothy 1:3: "that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my"
2 Timothy 2:18: "Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection"
2 Timothy 3:8: "men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith."
Titus 2:7: " In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in"
Titus 2:8: "no evil thing to say of you."
Philemon 1:10: "I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten"
Hebrews 2:5: "the world to come, whereof we speak."
Hebrews 4:4: "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And"
Hebrews 4:8: "then would he not afterward have spoken of another day."
Hebrews 5:3: "by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so"
Hebrews 5:3: "the people, so also for himself, to offer for"
Hebrews 5:11: " Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,"
Hebrews 6:9: "beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,"
Hebrews 7:14: "Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood."
Hebrews 9:5: "shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now"
Hebrews 10:6: "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure."
Hebrews 10:7: "the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will,"
Hebrews 10:8: "and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither"
Hebrews 10:18: "of these is, there is no more offering for sin."
Hebrews 10:26: "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,"
Hebrews 11:7: "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared"
