περιέχω
to surround
‘to surround’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4023 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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.
“to surround” is the headline sense of the Greek verb περιεχω (periéchō). A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Luke 5:9, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4023 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%
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: After 1×, Is contained 1×, Was astonished 1×
- American Standard Version: After 1×, Is contained 1×, Was 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stands 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Had seized 1×, Stands 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4023 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4023 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4023 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4023 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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 contain: of the subject-matter, contents, of a writing
- to take possession of, to seize
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4023 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περιέσχεν periéschen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 5:9 | 1 |
| περιέχει periéchei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Peter 2:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4023, 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
- περιβλεπω periblépō G4017 to look around
- περιδεω peridéō G4019 to bind around
- περιεργαζομαι periergázomai G4020 to bustle about
- περιεργος períergos G4021 busybody
- περιερχομαι periérchomai G4022 to go about
- 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).
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 περιεχω appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 8 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:5 περιἔχω
- 1 Kings 6:15 περιἔχω
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 περιἔχω
- Job 30:18 περιἔχω
- Psalms 16:9 περιἔχω
- Jeremiah 26:5 περιἔχω
- Ezekiel 6:12 περιἔχω
- Daniel 7:28 περιἔχω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4023) 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:5 περιἔχω For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
- 1 Kings 6:15 περιἔχω He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
- 1 Kings 6:20 περιἔχω Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:21 περιἔχω So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:22 περιἔχω The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:28 περιἔχω He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:30 περιἔχω The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 6:32 περιἔχω So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 6:35 περιἔχω He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 περιἔχω 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.
- Job 30:18 περιἔχω By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- Psalms 16:9 περιἔχω Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
- Psalms 17:5 περιἔχω My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
- Psalms 21:13 περιἔχω Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, So we will sing and praise your power.
- Psalms 21:17 περιἔχω
- Psalms 31:7 περιἔχω I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
- Psalms 39:13 περιἔχω Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."
- Psalms 87:18 περιἔχω
- Psalms 114:3 περιἔχω The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
- Jeremiah 26:5 περιἔχω 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;
- Ezekiel 6:12 περιἔχω He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.
- Ezekiel 16:57 περιἔχω before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.
- Daniel 7:28 περιἔχω Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4023) 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.
