κυκλόθεν
all around
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2943 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 4:3 κυκλόθεν adv that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
- Revelation 4:4 κυκλόθεν adv Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
- Revelation 4:8 κυκλόθεν adv The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κυκλοθεν — transliterated kyklóthen — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “all around.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Revelation. Debuting at Revelation 4:3, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with κυκλω and κυκλοω. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2943 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 3 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 100%
- Revelation 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Round about 3×
- American Standard Version: Round about 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: All around 1×, Encircled 1×, Surrounding 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Around 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2943 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2943 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2943 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2943 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- round about, from all sides, all around
Word origin
Derived from κυκλω (kýklōi) (G2945) — around.
Adverb from the same as G2945 ; from the circle that is all around : - (round) about.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2943, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κυκλοθεν appears 72 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 68 verses in 16 books.
- 72
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 68
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 21:44 κυκλόθεν
- Judges 2:14 κυκλόθεν
- 1 Samuel 10:1 κυκλόθεν
- 1 Kings 2:35 κυκλόθεν
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 κυκλόθεν
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 κυκλόθεν
- Ezra 1:6 κυκλόθεν
- Psalms 30:14 κυκλόθεν
- Isaiah 30:32 κυκλόθεν
- Jeremiah 6:25 κυκλόθεν
- Lamentations 2:22 κυκλόθεν
- Ezekiel 1:18 κυκλόθεν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2943) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 68. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 21:44 κυκλόθεν Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Joshua 23:1 κυκλόθεν It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
- Judges 2:14 κυκλόθεν The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
- Judges 8:34 κυκλόθεν The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
- 1 Samuel 10:1 κυκλόθεν Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
- 1 Samuel 12:11 κυκλόθεν Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.
- 1 Kings 2:35 κυκλόθεν The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 2:46 κυκλόθεν So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 5:4 κυκλόθεν But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.
- 1 Kings 5:18 κυκλόθεν Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
- 1 Kings 6:5 κυκλόθεν Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
- 1 Kings 6:6 κυκλόθεν The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:36 κυκλόθεν He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:11 κυκλόθεν Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
- 1 Kings 7:22 κυκλόθεν On the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
- 1 Kings 18:32 κυκλόθεν With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 κυκλόθεν Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days:
- 1 Chronicles 22:18 κυκλόθεν Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 κυκλόθεν Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 κυκλόθεν Under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 κυκλόθεν He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
- 2 Chronicles 15:15 κυκλόθεν All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about.
- 2 Chronicles 20:30 κυκλόθεν So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.
- 2 Chronicles 32:22 κυκλόθεν Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 κυκλόθεν Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- Ezra 1:6 κυκλόθεν All those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
- Ezra 22:28 κυκλόθεν
- Psalms 30:14 κυκλόθεν
- Isaiah 30:32 κυκλόθεν Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.
- Jeremiah 6:25 κυκλόθεν Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
- Jeremiah 17:26 κυκλόθεν They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 20:10 κυκλόθεν For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Jeremiah 26:5 κυκλόθεν to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;
- Jeremiah 27:29 κυκλόθεν
- Jeremiah 28:2 κυκλόθεν Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 30:24 κυκλόθεν The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.
- Jeremiah 31:17 κυκλόθεν There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.
- Lamentations 2:22 κυκλόθεν You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
- Ezekiel 1:18 κυκλόθεν As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
- Ezekiel 1:28 κυκλόθεν As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
- Ezekiel 5:17 κυκλόθεν and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 10:12 κυκλόθεν Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.
- Ezekiel 16:33 κυκλόθεν They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
- Ezekiel 16:37 κυκλόθεν therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 19:8 κυκλόθεν Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
- Ezekiel 23:22 κυκλόθεν Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
- Ezekiel 37:2 κυκλόθεν He caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, behold, they were very dry.
- Ezekiel 40:16 κυκλόθεν There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:25 κυκλόθεν There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:5 κυκλόθεν Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2943) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
