Perikeimai means “hang about” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4029 — migdaleder (“tower of the flock”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4029 περίκειμαι (perikeimai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. perikeimai (per-ik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie all around, i.e. inclose, encircle, hamper {literally or figuratively} It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include hanged, compassed, and bound. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
perikeimai (per-ik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie all around, i.e. inclose, encircle, hamper {literally or figuratively} [from G4012 and G2749] KJV: be bound (compassed) with, hang about Root(s): G4012, G2749
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4029. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to surround
Usage: περί-κειμαι [in LXX: Ep. Je 24, 58, 4Ma.12:3 * ;] __1. to lie round about: μύλος, λίθος (RV, were hanged about), Mrk.9:42, Luk.17:2; νεφος μαρτύρων, Heb.12:1. __2. to have around one, be clothed with: Act.28:20; figuratively, ἀσθένειαν, Heb.5:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render perikeimai, 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 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 G4029 (περίκειμαι) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren,
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4029.
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren,
By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.
Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4029, grouped by book.
Perikeimai (Strong's G4029) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hang about". perikeimai (per-ik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie all around, i.e. inclose, encircle, hamper {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G4029 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4029 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hanged, compassed, and bound. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4029, with linked reader references where each row is available.