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:
Hebrews 11:20: "Jacob and Esau concerning things to come."
Hebrews 11:22: "Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children"
Hebrews 11:22: "of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones."
Hebrews 11:32: "would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and"
Hebrews 11:40: "having provided some better thing for us, that they without us"
Hebrews 13:11: "by the high priest for sin, are burned without the"
Hebrews 13:18: "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good"
1 Peter 1:10: " Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied"
1 Peter 1:10: "and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:"
1 Peter 3:15: "to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in"
1 Peter 3:18: "also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,"
1 Peter 5:7: "for he careth for you."
2 Peter 1:12: "I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though"
2 Peter 3:16: "speaking in them of these things; in which are"
1 John 1:1: "our hands have handled, of the Word of life;"
1 John 2:2: "he is the propitiation for our sins: and not"
1 John 2:2: "sins: and not for ours only, but also"
1 John 2:2: "only, but also for the sins of the whole world."
1 John 2:26: "These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you."
1 John 2:27: "same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is"
1 John 4:10: "sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
1 John 5:9: "of God which he hath testified of his Son."
1 John 5:10: "that God gave of his Son."
1 John 5:16: "say that he shall pray for it."
3 John 1:2: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health,"
Jude 1:3: "diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful"
Jude 1:7: "and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication,"
Jude 1:9: "with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst"
Jude 1:15: "all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds"
Jude 1:15: "which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly"
Revelation 15:6: "white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles."
