περιβλέπω
to look around
‘to look around’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (71%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4017 appears — 7 distinct verses across 2 books. 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 6 verses
- Mark 3:5 περιβλεψάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
- Mark 3:34 περιβλεψάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
- Mark 5:32 περιεβλέπετο impf mid ind 3sg He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
- Mark 9:8 περιβλεψάμενοι aor mid ptcp nom pl masc Suddenly looking around, they saw no one with them any more, except Jesus only.
- Mark 10:23 περιβλεψάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
- Mark 11:11 περιβλεψάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Luke 1 verse
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.
The Greek verb περιβλεπω centers on the idea of “to look around.” The word gravitates to Mark (86%), then Luke. It appears 7 verses across 2 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Mark 3:5, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4017 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
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: He had looked round about 1×, He had looked round about upon 1×, He looked 1×
- American Standard Version: He had looked round about 1×, He had looked round about upon 1×, He looked round about 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: After looking around 1×, He kept looking around 1×, He looked around at 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having looked around 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4017 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4017 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4017 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4017 across 7 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses 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.
- to look around
- to look around about one's self
- to look round on one (i.e. to look for one's self at one near by)
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4017 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περιβλεψάμενος periblepsámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 3:5 | 5 |
| περιβλεψάμενοι periblepsámenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 9:8 | 1 |
| περιεβλέπετο perieblépeto | Verb, Imperfect, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 5:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4017, 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
- περιαγω periágō G4013 to lead around
- περιαιρεω periairéō G4014 to take away
- περιαστραπτω periastráptō G4015 to shine around
- περιβαλλω peribállō G4016 to throw around
- περιδεω peridéō G4019 to bind around
- περιεργαζομαι periergázomai G4020 to bustle about
- περιεργος períergos G4021 busybody
- περιερχομαι periérchomai G4022 to go about
- περιεχω periéchō G4023 to surround
- περιζωννυμι perizṓnnymi G4024 to gird
- περιΐστημι periḯstēmi G4026 to stand around
- περικαθαρμα perikátharma G4027 scum
- περικαλυπτω perikalýptō G4028 to cover up
- περικειμαι períkeimai G4029 to lie around
- περικεφαλαια perikephalaía G4030 helmet
- περικρατης perikratḗs G4031 to have power over
- περικρυπτω perikrýptō G4032 to hide
- περικυκλοω perikyklóō G4033 to encircle
- περιλαμπω perilámpō G4034 to shine around
- περιλειπω perileípō G4035 to remain over
- περιλυπος perílypos G4036 deeply sorrowful
- περιμενω periménō G4037 to wait for
- περιξ périx G4038 round about
- περιοικεω perioikéō G4039 to be neighbor
+17 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 43 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word περιβλεπω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 5 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:17 περιβλέπω
- Exodus 2:12 περιβλέπω
- Joshua 8:20 περιβλέπω
- 1 Kings 21:40 περιβλέπω
- Job 7:8 περιβλέπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4017) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:17 περιβλέπω It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
- Exodus 2:12 περιβλέπω He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- Joshua 8:20 περιβλέπω When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
- 1 Kings 21:40 περιβλέπω
- Job 7:8 περιβλέπω The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4017) 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.
