περιφέρω
to carry about
‘to carry about’ is one of 3 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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4064 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 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 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 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.
περιφερω (periphérō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to carry about.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It concentrates in Mark, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It first appears in Mark 6:55. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4064 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.
- #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
- Mark 1 verse 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- Ephesians 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- Gospels 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: Carried about 2×
- American Standard Version: Be 1×, Bearing about 1×, Began to carry about 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carried around 1×, Carry around 1×, Carrying 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Carried away 1×, Carry 1×, Carrying around 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4064 across 6 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4064 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4064 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4064 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 carry round, to bear about everywhere with one
- to carry here and there
- in doubt and hesitation to be led away now to this opinion, now to that
Word origin
Derived from περι (perí) (G4012) — about.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4064 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περιφέρειν periphérein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Mark 6:55 | 1 |
| περιφέροντες periphérontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 4:10 | 1 |
| περιφερόμενοι peripherómenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Ephesians 4:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4064, 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).
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 περιφερω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 24:33 περιφέρω
- Proverbs 5:19 περιφέρω
- Ecclesiastes 7:7 περιφέρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4064) 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.
- Joshua 24:33 περιφέρω Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
- Proverbs 5:19 περιφέρω A loving doe and a graceful deer-- Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
- Proverbs 10:24 περιφέρω What the wicked fear, will overtake them, But the desire of the righteous will be granted.
- Proverbs 11:29 περιφέρω He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:7 περιφέρω Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4064) 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.
