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περίχωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίχωρος περίχωρον

Structure: περιχωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. round about a place, the people about, the country round about

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρασ καὶ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τῆσ περιχώρου καὶ εἶδε, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνέβαινε φλὸξ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ, ὡσεὶ ἀτμὶσ καμίνου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:28)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ χεῖρα αὐτῶν ἐκράτησε Ραφαί̈α υἱὸσ Σούρ, ἄρχων ἡμίσουσ περιχώρου Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 3:9)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐκράτησε Σαλλοὺμ υἱὸσ Ἀλλωῆσ ἄρχων ἡμίσουσ περιχώρου Ἱερουσαλήμ, αὐτὸσ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρεσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 3:12)
  • καὶ τὴν πύλην τῆσ κοπρίασ ἐκράτησε Μελχία υἱὸσ Ρηχὰβ ἄρχων περιχώρου Βηθακχαρίμ, αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐσκέπασαν αὐτὴν καὶ ἔστησαν θύρασ αὐτῆσ καὶ κλεῖθρα αὐτῆσ καὶ μοχλοὺσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 3:14)
  • ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἐκράτησε Νεεμίασ υἱὸσ Ἀζαβοὺχ ἄρχων ἡμίσουσ περιχώρου Βηθσοὺρ ἕωσ κήπου τάφου Δαυὶδ καὶ ἕωσ τῆσ κολυμβήθρασ τῆσ γεγονυίασ καὶ ἕωσ Βηθαγγαρίμ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 3:16)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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