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περιβάλλω

to throw around

G4016 Strong's Greek
peribállō Transliteration
/per-ee-bal'-lo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 23 appearances

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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.

At its core, περιβαλλω (peribállō) means “to throw around.” Its uses cluster heavily in Revelation (52% of all occurrences). Spanning 23 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 6:29. Sharing its root, it stands alongside περι, περιαγω and περιαιρεω. Dig into 23-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
array
Modern gloss
to throw around
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4016 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 →

23
distinct verses
The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 6:29
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 6:29.
Revelation 19:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:13.
#563
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 10 · 43%
  • Acts 1 · 4%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 12 · 52%

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 23 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 13 verses · 57%
  • Revelation 12 verses · 52%
  • Gospels 10 verses · 43%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 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: Clothed 6×, Arrayed 4×, About 2×
  • American Standard Version: Arrayed 8×, Cast 2×, Was 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Clothed in 3×, Dressed 2×, Dressed in 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Clothe 2×, Clothed 2×, Clothed himself 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4016 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Clothed” 6×
  • “Arrayed” 4×
  • “About” 2×
  • “Cast” 2×
  • “Was” 2×
  • “Ye clothed” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4016 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Arrayed” 8×
  • “Cast” 2×
  • “Was” 2×
  • “Ye clothed” 2×

Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4016 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Clothed in” 3×
  • “Dressed” 2×
  • “Dressed in” 2×
  • “Was adorned” 2×

Plus 14 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 G4016 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Clothe” 2×
  • “Clothed” 2×
  • “Clothed himself” 2×
  • “Having been clothed” 2×

Plus 21 renderings that appear 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.

  1. to throw around, to put around

Word origin

Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.

Part of speech: Verb

From G4012 and G906 ; to throw all around that is invest (with a palisade or with clothing): - array cast about clothe (-d me) put on.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 15 distinct written forms G4016 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
περιβεβλημένη peribeblēménē Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Revelation 12:1 3
περιβεβλημένοι peribeblēménoi Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 7:13 2
περιβεβλημένον peribeblēménon Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Mark 16:5 2
περιβεβλημένος peribeblēménos Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 14:51 2
περιβεβλημένους peribeblēménous Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 4:4 2
περιεβάλετέ periebáleté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:36 2
περιεβάλετο periebáleto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 6:29 2
περιέβαλον periébalon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 19:2 1
περιβάληται peribálētai Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 19:8 1
περιβάλῃ peribálē Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Revelation 3:18 1
περιβαλεῖται peribaleîtai Verb, Future, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 3:5 1
περιβαλοῦ peribaloû Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 12:8 1
περιβαλώμεθα peribalṓmetha Verb, Aorist, Middle, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Matthew 6:31 1
περιβαλὼν peribalṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 23:11 1
περιεβάλομεν periebálomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 25:38 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4016, 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

+17 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 44 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word περιβαλλω appears 55 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 55 verses in 24 books.

55
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
55
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
24 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4016) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 55. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4016) 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.

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