Word Summary
perichōros: neighboring
Original Word: περίχωροςTransliteration: perichōros
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ikh'-o-ros)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: neighboring
Meaning: neighboring
Strong's Concordance
neighboring
From peri and chora; around the region, i.e. Circumjacent (as noun, with ge implied vicinity) -- country (round) about, region (that lieth) round about.
see GREEK peri
see GREEK chora
see GREEK ge
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4066: περίχωροςπερίχωρος,
περίχωρον (
περί and
χῶρος),
lying round about, neighboring (
Plutarch,
Aelian,
Dio Cassius); in the Scriptures
ἡ περίχωρος, namely,
γῆ,
the region round about (which see in
B. D.):
Matthew 14:35;
Mark 1:28;
Mark 6:55 (
R G L text);
Luke 3:3;
Luke 4:14, 37;
Luke 7:17;
Luke 8:37;
Acts 14:6 (
Genesis 19:17;
Deuteronomy 3:13, etc.;
τῆς γῆς τῆς περιχώρου,
Genesis 19:28, the
Alex. manuscript);
ἡ περίχωρος τοῦ Ιορδάνου,
Luke 3:3 (
Genesis 13:10f; for
הַיַּרְדֵּן כִּכַּר, the region of the Jordan (cf.
B. D. as above)); by metonymy, for its inhabitants:
Matthew 3:5. (
τό περίχωρον and
τά περίχωρα,
Deuteronomy 3:4;
1 Chronicles 5:16;
2 Chronicles 4:17, etc.)