κύκλῳ
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2945 appears in the Book of Mark — 3 distinct verses. 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.
Mark
- Mark 3:34 κύκλῳ n dat sg masc Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
- Mark 6:6 κύκλῳ n dat sg masc He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.
- Mark 6:36 κύκλῳ n dat sg masc Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."
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.
“around” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κυκλω (kýklōi). Its earliest occurrence is Mark 3:34. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Mark. Related forms include κυλιοω, κυλισμα and κυλλος. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2945 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 3 verses 38%
- Revelation 3 verses 38%
- Luke 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 50%
- Johannine 3 verses · 38%
- Revelation 3 verses · 38%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
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 7×
- American Standard Version: Round about 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Around 4×, Surrounding 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Around 3×, Circle 2×, Surrounding 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2945 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2945 across 8 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2945 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2945 across 8 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.
- in a circle, around, round about, on all sides
Word origin
Derived from κυλιοω (kylióō) (G2947) — to wallow.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2945, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κυκλω appears 210 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 198 verses in 26 books.
- 210
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 198
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 26 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 23:17 κύκλος
- Exodus 7:24 κύκλος
- Leviticus 1:5 κύκλος
- Numbers 1:50 κύκλος
- Deuteronomy 12:10 κύκλος
- Joshua 6:3 κύκλος
- Judges 7:18 κύκλος
- 1 Samuel 7:16 κύκλος
- 2 Samuel 5:9 κύκλος
- 1 Kings 2:35 κύκλος
- 2 Kings 11:8 κύκλος
- 1 Chronicles 4:33 κύκλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2945) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 198. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 23:17 κύκλος So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it round about, were made sure
- Genesis 35:5 κύκλος They traveled: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
- Genesis 41:48 κύκλος He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
- Exodus 7:24 κύκλος All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 16:13 κύκλος It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
- Exodus 19:12 κύκλος You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 25:11 κύκλος You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:24 κύκλος You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:25 κύκλος You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
- Exodus 27:17 κύκλος All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 28:33 κύκλος On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:34 κύκλος a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 29:16 κύκλος You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
- Exodus 29:21 κύκλος You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
- Exodus 30:3 κύκλος You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 36:32 κύκλος and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the tent for the hinder part westward.
- Exodus 36:33 κύκλος He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
- Exodus 37:18 κύκλος There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:
- Exodus 39:8 κύκλος He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 40:8 κύκλος You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
- Exodus 40:30 κύκλος He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
- Leviticus 1:5 κύκλος He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 1:11 κύκλος He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
- Leviticus 3:2 κύκλος He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 3:8 κύκλος and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 3:13 κύκλος and he shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 7:2 κύκλος In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 8:15 κύκλος He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
- Leviticus 8:19 κύκλος He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 8:24 κύκλος He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 9:12 κύκλος He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 9:18 κύκλος He also killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about,
- Leviticus 14:41 κύκλος and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 16:18 κύκλος "He shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about.
- Leviticus 17:6 κύκλος The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 25:31 κύκλος But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:44 κύκλος "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
- Numbers 1:50 κύκλος but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
- Numbers 1:53 κύκλος But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."
- Numbers 2:2 κύκλος "The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses: at a distance from the tent of meeting shall they encamp around it."
- Numbers 3:37 κύκλος the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
- Numbers 4:32 κύκλος and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.
- Numbers 11:24 κύκλος Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:31 κύκλος There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 11:32 κύκλος The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 16:24 κύκλος Speak to the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
- Numbers 16:27 κύκλος So they got them up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
- Numbers 16:34 κύκλος All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Numbers 22:4 κύκλος Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 32:33 κύκλος Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2945) 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.
