King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4029
Transliteration: perikeimai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ik'-i-mahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to lie around
Meaning: to lie around
περίκειμαι; (περί and κεῖμαι); from Homer down;
Word Summary
perikeimai: to lie around
Original Word: περίκειμαιTransliteration: perikeimai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ik'-i-mahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to lie around
Meaning: to lie around
Strong's Concordance
enclose, encircle, wearFrom peri and keimai; to lie all around, i.e. Inclose, encircle, hamper (literally or figuratively) -- be bound (compassed) with, hang about.
see GREEK peri
see GREEK keimai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4029: περίκειμαιπερίκειμαι; (περί and κεῖμαι); from Homer down;
1. to lie around (cf. περί, III. 1): περί (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 12) τί (A. V. were hanged, Mark 9:42); Luke 17:2; ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος (A. V. are composed about with a cloud etc.), Hebrews 12:1.
2. passively (cf. Buttmann, 50 (44)), to be compassed with, have round one, (with the accusative; cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 5; Buttmann, § 134, 7): ἅλυσιν, Acts 28:20 (δεσμά, 4 Macc. 12:3); ἀσθένειαν, infirmity cleaves to me, Hebrews 5:2 (ὕβριν, Theocritus, 23,14; ἀμαυρωσιν, νέφος, Clement of Rome, 2 Cor. 1, 6 [ET]).