ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΣΗ, περικλειση
PERIKLEISĒ, perikleisē
Sounds Like: peh-ree-KLEH-see
Translations: enclosure, shutting in, surrounding
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of enclosing, shutting in, or surrounding something. It describes the state or action of being closed off or encircled.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 9:220
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΕΡΙΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to be shut in, to be enclosed, to be confined, to be shut up
- ΠΕΡΙΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ — of those surrounded, of those enclosed, of those shut in, of those confined
- ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they shut in, they enclose, they surround, they hem in
- ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΣΑΣ — having enclosed, having shut around, having surrounded, having shut in
- ΠΕΡΙΚΛΕΙΩ — I shut in, I enclose, I surround, I close around, I hem in
- ΠΕΡΙΚΛΩΜΕΝΟΝ — enclosed, shut in, surrounded
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