Periistemi means “avoid” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4026 — migdal (“flower”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4026 περιίστημι (periistemi) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. periistemi (per-ee-is'-tay-mee) v. 1. to stand all around 2. (near) to be a bystander It has 11 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include stand, shun, and avoid. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
periistemi (per-ee-is'-tay-mee) v. 1. to stand all around 2. (near) to be a bystander 3. (aloof) to keep away from [from G4012 and G2476] KJV: avoid, shun, stand by (round about) Root(s): G4012, G2476
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4026. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to stand around
Usage: περι-ίστημι (Rec. ΐστημι) [in LXX: Jos.6:3 (סָבַב), 2Ki.13:31 (נָצַב ni.), 1Ki.4:16, Ep. Jer.37:1-21, Jdth.5:22, 2Ma.14:9 * ;] __1. to place around. __2. to stand around: Jhn.11:42; with accusative of person(s), Act.25:7. Mid. (in late writers), to turn oneself about to avoid, to shun: with accusative of thing(s), 2Ti.2:16, Tit.3:9.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render periistemi, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G4026 (περιίστημι) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And do thou set the men of war round about it.
Now Eli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay upon the ground: and all his servants that were standing round him rent their garments.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people standing round about the tent murmured, and the chief men of Holofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side, and in Moab, spoke that he should kill him.
Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4026.
And do thou set the men of war round about it.
Now Eli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.
Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay upon the ground: and all his servants that were standing round him rent their garments.
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people standing round about the tent murmured, and the chief men of Holofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side, and in Moab, spoke that he should kill him.
Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4026, grouped by book.
Periistemi (Strong's G4026) is a Greek word most simply glossed "avoid". periistemi (per-ee-is'-tay-mee) v. 1. to stand all around 2. (near) to be a bystander
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G4026 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4026 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 stand, shun, and avoid. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4026, with linked reader references where each row is available.