ΠΕΡΙΠΛΕΟΙ, περιπλεοι
PERIPLEOI, peripleoi
Sounds Like: peh-ree-PLEH-oy
Translations: sail around, circumnavigate, sail about
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΠΛΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from περί (peri), meaning 'around' or 'about', and πλέω (pleō), meaning 'to sail'. It describes the action of sailing around a place or object, or circumnavigating it. It can be used to indicate movement around a geographical feature or a general journey by sea.
Inflection: Present Active Indicative, 2nd Person Plural; or Present Active Subjunctive, 2nd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G4011 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 4:46
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΠΛΕΩ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΠΛΕΟΝΤΩΝ — of those sailing around, of those navigating around, of those sailing about, of those navigating about
- ΠΕΡΙΠΛΕΩ — sail around, sail about, sail by
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