Strong G4023περιέχω
to contain
- Transliteration
- periechō
- Pronunciation
- per-ee-ekh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
περι-έχω,
[in LXX for H661, H5362 hi., H6822 pi., etc.;]
1. to surround, encompass: Luk.5:9 (cf. MM, xix).
2. to comprehend, include, contain, esp. of books: with accusative, Act.23:25, Rec.; accusative to a late usage, intrans. (BL, § 53, 1.3; MM, xix; Hort, in l), it stands written, 1Pe.2:6.†
(AS)
[in LXX for H661, H5362 hi., H6822 pi., etc.;]
1. to surround, encompass: Luk.5:9 (cf. MM, xix).
2. to comprehend, include, contain, esp. of books: with accusative, Act.23:25, Rec.; accusative to a late usage, intrans. (BL, § 53, 1.3; MM, xix; Hort, in l), it stands written, 1Pe.2:6.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4023 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- after1
- contain1
First verses
- Luke 5:9For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
- Acts 23:25And he wrote a letter after this manner:
- 1 Peter 2:6Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
περιέχω,
also περιεργ-ίσχω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.71)]; Aeolic dialect περρέχω [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.9, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.3:)]future περιέξω (and περισχήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.7):)]aorist περιέσχον, infinitive περισχεῖν: aorist middle περιεσχόμην, infinitive περισχέσθαι:—encompass, embrace, surround, κυκλόθεν ὁδὸς π. [τὸ χωρίον] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.28; ἡ περιέχουσα [πέλαγος] γῆ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 25a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 354a6; γραμμαὶ περιέχουσαι τὸ χωρίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 85a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 851a14; ἡ περιέχουσα [ἶρις] [prev. author] “Mete.” 375a31; τόπον κύκλῳ πέτραις περιεχόμενον “IG” 42(1).122.21 (Epid.))]; τὸ περιέχον the envelope of a seed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.11.1.)]
b especially of that which encompasses the earth or the universe, τὸν κόσμον πνεῦμα καὶ ἀὴρ π[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. Anaxim. 2; ὁ περὶ χθόν᾽ ἔχων αἰθήρ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 919 (assuming variant), compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.17.4; τὸ περιέχον πάντα ὁπόσα νοητὰ ζῷα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 31a, compare 33b)]; τὸ περιέχον the environment, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 79 G., +others, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.3.14; τὸ περιέχον ἡμᾶς ἅπαντας καὶ γῆν καὶ θάλατταν, ὃ καλοῦμεν οὐρανόν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.2.35)]; ὁ περιέχων ἀήρ ἠήρ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “νόμος” 3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 379a28, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.47, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.333f, etc.)]; ὁ περιέχων alone, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cor.” 38)]; but usually τὸ περιέχον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 2, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 468a3, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Phas.” p.10 H., 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.286)]; τὸ ἄπειρον καὶ τὸ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 332a25, compare “Ph.” 253a13, 259b11; φαμὲν τὸ μὲν π. τοῦ εἴδους εἶναι, τὸ δὲ περιεχόμενον τῆς ὕλης [prev. author] “Cael.” 312a12, compare “Ph.” 211b12.)]
c τὸ π. the atmosphere, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.37.9, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.38, etc.)]; δυσκρασίαι τοῦ π. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 58.)]
2 embrace, τινὰ ταῖς χερσίν Id [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Ant.” 79, compare “Alex.” 51, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.5.3; πατρὸς περὶ ἔχοντος 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 115.1.)]
3 surround so as to guard, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 16, etc.)]:—but, passive, to be shut in, beleaguered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.10; ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων κύκλῳ [prev. work] 79)]; πανταχόθεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.24)]: metaphorically, to be hard pressed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 289; περισχομένη κακότητι 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.95.)]
4 embrace, comprise, comprehend, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 87d, etc.; πλείω γένη 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a2; περιέχεται ὑπὸ τοῦ ὅλου τὰ πάντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 145c)]; contain, βίβλος π. τὰς πράξεις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.1; λόγος π. ἐγκώμιον 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 660)]; of a letter, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.4.11: _impersonal_, περιέχει ἐν γραφῇ)], followed by a quotation, [NT (NT.1Pet.2.6)]; καθὼς ἡ ὠνὴ π. as is contained in the deed of sale, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Supp.epigram” 3.421.33 (_Locrian dialect_, 2nd c.AD).)]
4.b in Logic, τὸ περιέχον universal, opposed to τὰ περιεχόμενα, the individuals or particulars, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1023b27, compare “APr.” 43b23)]; ὀνόματα περιέχοντα generic terms, [Refs ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1407a31)]; καλοῦσι δ᾽ αὐτοὺς πλάτακας ἀπὸ τοῦ περιέχοντος from the generic name, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.309a.)]
5 in Mathematics texts, ὁ ὑπὸ δύο ἀριθμῶν περιεχόμενος [ἀριθμός] the product of two numbers, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 7 “Def.” 19)]; but π. ἑαυτόν, of a number of which a higher power terminates in the same digit, [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 33.)]
6 τὸν ἔλεγχον π. to be involved in, open to criticism, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.49 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
II surpass, excel, πάντα περρέχοισ᾽ ἄστρα, of the moon, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.9)]; overcome, gain the victory or advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.7, 8.105.)]
II.2 outflank the enemy, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.71; περιέσχον τῷ κέρᾳ οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι [prev. author] 3.108,compare 5.73.)]
III middle, hold one's hands round or over another: hence, protect, defend, with genitive person, περίσχεο (Ionic dialect imperative aorist 2 middle) παιδὸς ἐῆος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393: with _accusative_, οὕνεκά μιν περισχόμεθα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.199.)]
III.2 hold fast by, cling to, with genitive, γούνων περισχομένη [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.82 (but with _accusative_, περίσχετο γούνατα χερσίν [prev. author] 3.706); περιίσχετο κούρης 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.11)]: hence, cleave to, be fond of a person or thing, γενσάμενοι τῶν ἡμετέρων ἀγαθῶν περιέξονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, compare 3.53, 5.40, 7.39, 160, etc.)]; τὠυτοῦ περιεχόμεθα we are compassing, aiming at the same end, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] 3.72, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 9)]; κρίσιν.. ἧς μᾶλλον περιέχομαι on which I place more reliance, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.4.)]
III.3 rarely with infinitive, περιείχετο.. μένοντας μὴ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν τάξιν clung to his resolution that they should stay and not leave their post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57.)]
IV Aeolic dialect περρέχω, ={ὑπερέχω}, ὁπόσον τῷ ποδὶ περρέχει τᾶς γᾶς, τοῦτο χάρις, i.e. every inch of his stature is grace, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.3.)]
also περιεργ-ίσχω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.71)]; Aeolic dialect περρέχω [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.9, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.3:)]future περιέξω (and περισχήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.7):)]aorist περιέσχον, infinitive περισχεῖν: aorist middle περιεσχόμην, infinitive περισχέσθαι:—encompass, embrace, surround, κυκλόθεν ὁδὸς π. [τὸ χωρίον] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.28; ἡ περιέχουσα [πέλαγος] γῆ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 25a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 354a6; γραμμαὶ περιέχουσαι τὸ χωρίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 85a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 851a14; ἡ περιέχουσα [ἶρις] [prev. author] “Mete.” 375a31; τόπον κύκλῳ πέτραις περιεχόμενον “IG” 42(1).122.21 (Epid.))]; τὸ περιέχον the envelope of a seed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.11.1.)]
b especially of that which encompasses the earth or the universe, τὸν κόσμον πνεῦμα καὶ ἀὴρ π[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. Anaxim. 2; ὁ περὶ χθόν᾽ ἔχων αἰθήρ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 919 (assuming variant), compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.17.4; τὸ περιέχον πάντα ὁπόσα νοητὰ ζῷα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 31a, compare 33b)]; τὸ περιέχον the environment, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 79 G., +others, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.3.14; τὸ περιέχον ἡμᾶς ἅπαντας καὶ γῆν καὶ θάλατταν, ὃ καλοῦμεν οὐρανόν 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.2.35)]; ὁ περιέχων ἀήρ ἠήρ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “νόμος” 3, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 379a28, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.47, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.333f, etc.)]; ὁ περιέχων alone, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cor.” 38)]; but usually τὸ περιέχον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 2, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 468a3, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Phas.” p.10 H., 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.286)]; τὸ ἄπειρον καὶ τὸ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 332a25, compare “Ph.” 253a13, 259b11; φαμὲν τὸ μὲν π. τοῦ εἴδους εἶναι, τὸ δὲ περιεχόμενον τῆς ὕλης [prev. author] “Cael.” 312a12, compare “Ph.” 211b12.)]
c τὸ π. the atmosphere, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.37.9, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.38, etc.)]; δυσκρασίαι τοῦ π. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 58.)]
2 embrace, τινὰ ταῖς χερσίν Id [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Ant.” 79, compare “Alex.” 51, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.5.3; πατρὸς περὶ ἔχοντος 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 115.1.)]
3 surround so as to guard, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 16, etc.)]:—but, passive, to be shut in, beleaguered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.10; ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων κύκλῳ [prev. work] 79)]; πανταχόθεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.24)]: metaphorically, to be hard pressed, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 289; περισχομένη κακότητι 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.95.)]
4 embrace, comprise, comprehend, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 87d, etc.; πλείω γένη 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a2; περιέχεται ὑπὸ τοῦ ὅλου τὰ πάντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 145c)]; contain, βίβλος π. τὰς πράξεις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.1; λόγος π. ἐγκώμιον 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 660)]; of a letter, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.4.11: _impersonal_, περιέχει ἐν γραφῇ)], followed by a quotation, [NT (NT.1Pet.2.6)]; καθὼς ἡ ὠνὴ π. as is contained in the deed of sale, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Supp.epigram” 3.421.33 (_Locrian dialect_, 2nd c.AD).)]
4.b in Logic, τὸ περιέχον universal, opposed to τὰ περιεχόμενα, the individuals or particulars, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1023b27, compare “APr.” 43b23)]; ὀνόματα περιέχοντα generic terms, [Refs ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1407a31)]; καλοῦσι δ᾽ αὐτοὺς πλάτακας ἀπὸ τοῦ περιέχοντος from the generic name, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.309a.)]
5 in Mathematics texts, ὁ ὑπὸ δύο ἀριθμῶν περιεχόμενος [ἀριθμός] the product of two numbers, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 7 “Def.” 19)]; but π. ἑαυτόν, of a number of which a higher power terminates in the same digit, [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 33.)]
6 τὸν ἔλεγχον π. to be involved in, open to criticism, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.49 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
II surpass, excel, πάντα περρέχοισ᾽ ἄστρα, of the moon, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.9)]; overcome, gain the victory or advantage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.7, 8.105.)]
II.2 outflank the enemy, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.71; περιέσχον τῷ κέρᾳ οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι [prev. author] 3.108,compare 5.73.)]
III middle, hold one's hands round or over another: hence, protect, defend, with genitive person, περίσχεο (Ionic dialect imperative aorist 2 middle) παιδὸς ἐῆος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.393: with _accusative_, οὕνεκά μιν περισχόμεθα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.199.)]
III.2 hold fast by, cling to, with genitive, γούνων περισχομένη [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.82 (but with _accusative_, περίσχετο γούνατα χερσίν [prev. author] 3.706); περιίσχετο κούρης 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.11)]: hence, cleave to, be fond of a person or thing, γενσάμενοι τῶν ἡμετέρων ἀγαθῶν περιέξονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, compare 3.53, 5.40, 7.39, 160, etc.)]; τὠυτοῦ περιεχόμεθα we are compassing, aiming at the same end, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] 3.72, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 9)]; κρίσιν.. ἧς μᾶλλον περιέχομαι on which I place more reliance, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.4.)]
III.3 rarely with infinitive, περιείχετο.. μένοντας μὴ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν τάξιν clung to his resolution that they should stay and not leave their post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57.)]
IV Aeolic dialect περρέχω, ={ὑπερέχω}, ὁπόσον τῷ ποδὶ περρέχει τᾶς γᾶς, τοῦτο χάρις, i.e. every inch of his stature is grace, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 30.3.)]