ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΖΩΝ, περιτειχιζων
PERITEICHIZŌN, periteichizōn
Sounds Like: peh-ree-TEE-khee-zohn
Translations: walling around, surrounding with a wall, besieging, blockading
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from 'περί' (around) and 'τειχίζω' (to wall, to fortify). As a participle, it describes an action of 'walling around' or 'surrounding with a wall'. It is often used in military contexts to describe the act of besieging a city or place by building a wall or fortifications around it to cut off supplies and prevent escape. It can also imply a general act of enclosing or encircling.
Inflection: Present, Active, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4024 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 9:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΖΩ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΕ — he walled around, he surrounded with a wall, he fortified
- ΠΕΡΙΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΕΝ — walled around, built a wall around, encircled with a wall, fortified
- ΠΕΡΙΕΤΙΧΙΣΕΝ — he built a wall around, he walled around, he surrounded with a wall
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΖΕΙΝ — to wall around, to surround with a wall, to encircle with a wall, to fortify
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΖΩ — to wall around, to surround with a wall, to encircle with a wall, to fortify
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΑΣ — having walled around, having encircled with a wall, having besieged
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΘΕΙΣΗΣΤΗΣ — of the having been walled around, of the having been encircled with a wall
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΕΝΑ — things walled around, things fortified, things surrounded with a wall
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΕΝΗ — walled around, surrounded with a wall, fortified, encircled with a wall, a walled city
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΕΝΟΙΣ — surrounded with a wall, walled around, fortified, besieged
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΤΑΙ — has been walled around, has been fortified, has been encircled with a wall
- ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΕΙΧΙΣΤΟ — it had been walled around, it had been fortified, it had been encircled with a wall
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