Original Word: περίκειμαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: perikeimai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ik'-i-mahee)
Definition: to lie around
Usage: I lie about, surround; I am encompassed, surrounded, or clothed with, am in submission to.Word Origin
from peri and keimai
Definition
to lie around
NASB Translation
beset (1), hung (2), surrounding (1), wearing (1).

STRONGS NT 4029: περίκειμαι

περίκειμαι; (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]).

enclose, encircle, wear

From 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

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