2001 Translation

PERISTĒSON, peristēson

Sounds Like: peh-ris-TEE-son

Translations: surround, stand around, place around, set around

From the root: ΠΕΡΙΣΤΗΜΙ

Part of Speech: Verb

Explanation: This word is an imperative form of the verb 'peristemi', meaning 'to stand around' or 'to surround'. It is used to command someone to encircle or place something around another object or person. It can also imply causing someone to stand by or near.

Inflection: Aorist, Active, Imperative, Second Person, Singular

Strong’s number: G4008 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Joshua — 6:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΣΤΗΜΙ.

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.

• ΠΕΡΙΣΤΑΙ — they stand around, they surround, they are present, they are at hand, they are imminent
• ΠΕΡΙΣΤΑΙΗ — might stand around, might surround, might avoid, might turn away, might come about
• ΠΕΡΙΣΤΗΜΙ — to stand around, to surround, to stand by, to be present

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