ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΨΑΣ, περιγραψας
PERIGRAPSAS, perigrapsas
Sounds Like: peh-ree-GRAHP-sas
Translations: having drawn around, having circumscribed, having limited, having described, having defined
From the root: ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb περιγράφω (perigrapho), meaning 'to draw a line around, to circumscribe, to limit, to describe'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, indicating an action completed in the past by the subject of the main verb. It is a compound word formed from περί (peri), meaning 'around' or 'about', and γράφω (grapho), meaning 'to write' or 'to draw'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4037 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 9:334
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΩ.
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.
- ΠΕΡΙΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΣ — circumscribed, limited, defined, described, written around, having been circumscribed, having been limited
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΕΝ — to be surrounded, to be encircled, to be circumscribed, to be limited, to be defined, to be described
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΤΟΣ — of describing, of circumscribing, of limiting, of defining, of enclosing, of drawing around
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΩ — to write around, to circumscribe, to limit, to define, to mark off, to describe
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΨΑΝΤΑΣ — having circumscribed, having described, having limited, having defined, those who circumscribed, those who described, those who limited, those who defined
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΨΑΣΘΑΙ — to circumscribe, to limit, to define, to describe, to delineate, to mark out, to end
- ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΨΩΝ — about to limit, about to circumscribe, about to restrain, about to define
- ΠΕΡΙΕΓΡΑΦΕ — he described, he wrote around, he drew around, he circumscribed, he limited, he defined
- ΠΕΡΙΕΓΡΑΨΕ — he circumscribed, he drew around, he limited, he defined, he described, he wrote around
- ΠΕΡΙΕΓΡΑΨΕΝ — he circumscribed, he limited, he enclosed, he described, he wrote around
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