περικυκλόω
to encircle
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
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
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
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4033 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
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 περικυκλοω centers on the idea of “to encircle.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Luke 19:43. Related forms include περι, περιαγω and περιαιρεω. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4033 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 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: Compass 1×, Round 1×
- American Standard Version: Compass 1×, Round 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Surround 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: They will surround 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4033 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4033 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4033 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4033 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- to encircle, compass about
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4033, 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
- 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
- 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 περικυκλοω appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 8 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- 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
- Genesis 19:4 περικυκλόω
- Exodus 36:20 περικυκλόω
- Numbers 21:4 περικυκλόω
- Joshua 6:13 περικυκλόω
- 2 Kings 6:14 περικυκλόω
- Psalms 16:11 περικυκλόω
- Proverbs 20:19 περικυκλόω
- Jeremiah 38:39 περικυκλόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4033) 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 19:4 περικυκλόω But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Exodus 36:20 περικυκλόω He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Numbers 21:4 περικυκλόω They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 32:38 περικυκλόω and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
- Joshua 6:13 περικυκλόω The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.
- Joshua 7:9 περικυκλόω For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
- 2 Kings 6:14 περικυκλόω Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
- Psalms 16:11 περικυκλόω You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
- Psalms 17:6 περικυκλόω I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- Psalms 21:13 περικυκλόω Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, So we will sing and praise your power.
- Proverbs 20:19 περικυκλόω He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
- Jeremiah 38:39 περικυκλόω
- Jeremiah 52:21 περικυκλόω As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4033) 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.
