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)
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G4029 — περίκειμαι
perikeimai · to surround · Greek
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Mark 9:42 · περίκειταιand whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.Luke 17:2 · περίκειταιit is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.Acts 28:20 · περίκειμαι.for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.’Hebrews 5:2 · περίκειταιable to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;Hebrews 12:1 · περικείμενονTherefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,