ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩΝ, περισυρων
PERISYRŌN, perisyrōn
Sounds Like: peh-ree-SOO-rohn
Translations: dragging around, pulling about, sweeping away, carrying along
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound participle, formed from the preposition περί (peri), meaning 'around' or 'about', and the verb σύρω (syro), meaning 'to drag' or 'to pull'. It describes the action of dragging something or someone around, pulling them along, or sweeping them away. It can be used to describe a physical action or, metaphorically, to describe being carried away by circumstances or influence.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4061 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 30:37
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΑΝΤΕΣ — dragging around, having dragged around, pulling around
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΟΝΤΕΣ — dragging around, hauling about, pulling around, carrying about
- ΠΕΡΙΣΥΡΩ — to drag around, to drag about, to drag along, to carry away, to sweep away
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