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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:14 - Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:16 - The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim[fn] and all the store cities of Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:9 - Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:12 - Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section with the help of his daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:14 - The Dung Gate was repaired by Malkijah son of Rekab, ruler of the district of Beth Hakkerem. He rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16 - Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth Zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs[fn] of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Heroes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:17 - Next to him, the repairs were made by the Levites under Rehum son of Bani. Beside him, Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, carried out repairs for his district.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:18 - Next to him, the repairs were made by their fellow Levites under Binnui[fn] son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - The musicians also were brought together from the region around Jerusalem—from the villages of the Netophathites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”
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