περιτίθημι
to place around
‘to place around’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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
- 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”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4060 appears in the Book of Mark — 3 distinct verses. 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
- Mark 12:1 περιέθηκεν aor act ind 3sg He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
- Mark 15:17 περιτιθέασιν pres act ind 3pl They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
- Mark 15:36 περιθεὶς aor act ptcp nom sg masc One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
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.
περιτιθημι — transliterated peritíthēmi — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to place around.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. With 8 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (38% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 21:33. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4060 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 88%
- Johannine 1 verse · 13%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 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: Put it on 2×
- American Standard Version: Put 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: He put 2×, Put on 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Around 3×, Put 3×, Having put 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4060 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G4060 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G4060 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G4060 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 4 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 place around, set about
- to put on a garment
- to put or bind a thing around another
- to present, to bestow, confer, a thing upon one
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4060 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περιέθηκεν periéthēken | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 21:33 | 2 |
| περιθεὶς peritheìs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:48 | 2 |
| περιέθηκαν periéthēkan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 27:28 | 1 |
| περιθέντες perithéntes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | John 19:29 | 1 |
| περιτίθεμεν peritíthemen | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 12:23 | 1 |
| περιτιθέασιν peritithéasin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 15:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4060, 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
- 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
+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 περιτιθημι appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 39 verses in 13 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 39
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:47 περιτίθημι
- Exodus 29:9 περιτίθημι
- Leviticus 8:13 περιτίθημι
- Numbers 27:7 περιτίθημι
- Ruth 3:3 περιτίθημι
- Esther 1:11 περιτίθημι
- Job 4:4 περιτίθημι
- Proverbs 7:3 περιτίθημι
- Isaiah 5:2 περιτίθημι
- Jeremiah 13:1 περιτίθημι
- Ezekiel 16:11 περιτίθημι
- Daniel 5:7 περιτίθημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4060) 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 24:47 περιτίθημι I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
- Genesis 27:16 περιτίθημι She put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.
- Genesis 41:42 περιτίθημι Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
- Exodus 29:9 περιτίθημι You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 34:35 περιτίθημι The children of Israel saw Moses' face, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
- Exodus 40:8 περιτίθημι You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
- Leviticus 8:13 περιτίθημι Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:4 περιτίθημι He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be dressed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
- Numbers 27:7 περιτίθημι The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
- Numbers 27:8 περιτίθημι You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
- Ruth 3:3 περιτίθημι Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
- Esther 1:11 περιτίθημι to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful to look on.
- Esther 1:20 περιτίθημι When the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
- Esther 5:9 περιτίθημι Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
- Job 4:4 περιτίθημι Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
- Job 13:26 περιτίθημι For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
- Job 31:36 περιτίθημι Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.
- Job 38:10 περιτίθημι Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,
- Job 39:19 περιτίθημι "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
- Job 39:20 περιτίθημι Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.
- Job 40:25 περιτίθημι
- Proverbs 7:3 περιτίθημι Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 12:9 περιτίθημι Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, Than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
- Isaiah 5:2 περιτίθημι He dug it up, Gathered out its stones, Planted it with the choicest vine, Built a tower in its midst, And also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, But it yielded wild grapes.
- Isaiah 49:18 περιτίθημι Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.
- Isaiah 59:17 περιτίθημι He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
- Isaiah 61:10 περιτίθημι I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Jeremiah 13:1 περιτίθημι Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.
- Jeremiah 13:2 περιτίθημι So I bought a belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.
- Jeremiah 28:3 περιτίθημι Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 34:2 περιτίθημι Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
- Ezekiel 16:11 περιτίθημι I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
- Ezekiel 27:3 περιτίθημι and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:4 περιτίθημι Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:7 περιτίθημι Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
- Daniel 5:7 περιτίθημι The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:14 περιτίθημι I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
- Daniel 5:18 περιτίθημι You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
- Hosea 2:15 περιτίθημι I will give her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope; And she will respond there, As in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4060) 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.
