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περιποιέομαι

to reserve

‘to reserve’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓

G4046 Strong's Greek
peripoiéomai Transliteration
/per-ee-poy-eh'-om-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 3 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, περιποιεομαι (peripoiéomai) means “to reserve.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (33%), then Acts and 1 Timothy. First canonically at Luke 17:33, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
purchase
Modern gloss
to reserve
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 G4046 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 →

3
distinct verses
The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Luke 17:33
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Luke 17:33.
1 Timothy 3:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Timothy 3:13.
#2,203
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 33%
  • Acts 1 · 33%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 33%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 3 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 33%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%

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 hath purchased 1×, Purchase 1×
  • American Standard Version: Gain 1×, He purchased 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Acquire 1×, He purchased 1×, Save 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Acquire 1×, He obtained 1×, Keep 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4046 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He hath purchased” 1×
  • “Purchase” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4046 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Gain” 1×
  • “He purchased” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4046 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Acquire” 1×
  • “He purchased” 1×
  • “Save” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4046 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Acquire” 1×
  • “He obtained” 1×
  • “Keep” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 5 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.

  1. to make to remain over
  2. to reserve, to leave or keep safe, lay by
  3. to make to remain for one's self
  4. to preserve for one's self
  5. to get for one's self, purchase

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb

Middle voice from G4012 and G4160 ; to make around oneself that is acquire ( buy ): - purchase.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G4046 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
περιεποιήσατο periepoiḗsato Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 20:28 1
περιποιήσασθαι peripoiḗsasthai Verb, Aorist, Middle, Infinitive Luke 17:33 1
περιποιοῦνται peripoioûntai Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 Timothy 3:13 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4046, 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 περιποιεομαι appears 26 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 26 verses in 15 books.

26
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
26
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
15 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4046) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4046) 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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