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Lexicon :: Strong's G4066 - perichōros

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περίχωρος
Transliteration
perichōros (Key)
Pronunciation
per-ikh'-o-ros
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

περίχωρος períchōros, per-ikh'-o-ros; from G4012 and G5561; around the region, i.e. circumjacent (as noun, with G1093 implied vicinity):—country (round) about, region (that lieth) round about.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4066 in the following manner: region round about (5x), country round about (3x), country about (1x), region that lieth around about (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4066 in the following manner: region round about (5x), country round about (3x), country about (1x), region that lieth around about (1x).

  1. lying round about, neighbouring

    1. the region round about

    2. the region of Jordan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
περίχωρος períchōros, per-ikh'-o-ros; from G4012 and G5561; around the region, i.e. circumjacent (as noun, with G1093 implied vicinity):—country (round) about, region (that lieth) round about.
STRONGS G4066:
περίχωρος, περίχωρον (περί and χῶρος), lying round about, neighboring (Plutarch, Aelian, Dio Cassius); in the Scriptures ἡ περίχωρος, namely, γῆ, the region round about (which see in B. D.): Matthew 14:35; Mark 1:28; Mark 6:55 (R G L text); Luke 3:3; Luke 4:14, 37; Luke 7:17; Luke 8:37; Acts 14:6 (Genesis 19:17; Deuteronomy 3:13, etc.; τῆς γῆς τῆς περιχώρου, Genesis 19:28, the Alex. manuscript); ἡ περίχωρος τοῦ Ιορδάνου, Luke 3:3 (Genesis 13:10f; for הַיַּרְדֵּן כִּכַּר, the region of the Jordan (cf. B. D. as above)); by metonymy, for its inhabitants: Matthew 3:5. (τό περίχωρον and τά περίχωρα, Deuteronomy 3:4; 1 Chronicles 5:16; 2 Chronicles 4:17, etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
13:10; 19:17; 19:28
Deuteronomy
3:4; 3:13
1 Chronicles
5:16
2 Chronicles
4:17
Matthew
3:5; 14:35
Mark
1:28; 6:55
Luke
3:3; 3:3; 4:14; 4:37; 7:17; 8:37
Acts
14:6

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Strong's Number G4066 matches the Greek περίχωρος (perichōros),
which occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:16 - and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:9 - Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of[fn] Jerusalem, repaired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:12 - Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:14 - Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16 - After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:17 - After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:18 - After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”
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