ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ, περιφεροντες
PERIPHERONTES, peripherontes
Sounds Like: peh-ree-FEH-ron-tes
Translations: carrying about, bearing about, being carried around, wandering about
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound verb formed from 'περί' (around) and 'φέρω' (to carry or bear). As a participle, it describes an action that is ongoing or continuous. It can mean to carry something around, to bear something about, or to be carried or driven around. In some contexts, it can also imply wandering or being unstable.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Plural, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G4064 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:73
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Corinthians — 4:10
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 14:25
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 2 Corinthians — 4:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΩ.
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.
- ΕΠΕΡΙΦΗΝ — I was carried about, I was borne about, I was carried, I was borne
- ΠΕΡΙΕΝΕΓΚΑΣΑΝ — having carried around, having borne, having endured, having brought forth
- ΠΕΡΙΕΝΕΓΚΩΝ — carrying around, having carried around, bearing around, having borne around, going around, having gone around
- ΠΕΡΙΕΦΕΡΟΣΑΝ — they carried around, they bore about, they went about
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙ — carries around, bears about, leads about, brings around
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΤΑΙ — is carried about, is driven about, is tossed about, goes about
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΙ — being carried about, being driven about, being tossed about, being led astray
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΝ — being carried about, being driven about, wandering, a wanderer, a vagrant
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΣ — being carried about, being driven about, being tossed about, wandering, going around, a being carried about, a being driven about, a being tossed about, a wandering, a going around
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΩ — carry about, bear about, lead about, take around
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΩΝ — carrying around, bearing about, wandering, being carried about, being driven about
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