Periago means “compass” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4013 — mibtsar (“fortress”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4013 περιῆγεν is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. periago (per-ee-ag'-o) v. 1. to take around (as a companion) 2. (reflexively) to walk around It has 13 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include went, compass, and about. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
periago (per-ee-ag'-o) v. 1. to take around (as a companion) 2. (reflexively) to walk around [from G4012 and G71] KJV: compass, go (round) about, lead about Root(s): G4012, G71
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to take/go around
Usage: περι-άγω [in LXX: Amo.2:10 (הָלַךְ hi.); Isa.28:27, Eze.47:2 (סָבַב hi., ho.); Eze.37:2 46:21 (עָבַר hi), 2Ma.4:38 2Mac 6:10 * ;] __1. to lead about or around: with accusative of person(s), 1Co.9:5. __2. Intrans., to go about: Act.13:11; before ἐν, Mat.4:23; with accusative loc. (governed by the περι-, not so in cl., see Bl., § 34, 1; 53, 1), Mat.9:35 23:15, Mrk.6:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's G4013, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4013 (περιῆγεν) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;
And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry.
And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and, behold, there was a court on each of the sides of the court,
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.
For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4013.
For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;
And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry.
And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and, behold, there was a court on each of the sides of the court,
And he brought me out by the way of the northern gate, and he led me round by the way outside to the gate of the court that looks eastward; and, behold, water came down from the right side,
And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.
For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
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Periago (Strong's G4013) is a Greek word most simply glossed "compass". periago (per-ee-ag'-o) v. 1. to take around (as a companion) 2. (reflexively) to walk around
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G4013 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4013 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as went, compass, and about. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4013, with linked reader references where each row is available.