ΠΕΡΙΤΕΙΧΟΣ, περιτειχος
PERITEICHOS, periteichos
Sounds Like: peh-ree-TEH-khoss
Translations: wall around, a wall around, circumvallation, siege wall
From the root: ΤΕΙΧΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'περί' (peri), meaning 'around', and 'τεῖχος' (teichos), meaning 'wall'. It refers to a wall built around a city or fortification, often specifically a siege wall or a wall of circumvallation constructed by an attacking army to blockade a city.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4038 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΕΙΧΟΣ.
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.
- ΤΕΕΙΣ — wall, a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΕΙ — wall, a wall, (to) a wall, (in) a wall, (on) a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΕΣΙ — to wall, to a wall, to walls, to a city wall
- ΤΕΙΧΕΣΙΝ — to walls, to a wall, walls, a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΕΩΝ — of walls, of a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΗ — walls, a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΗΤΙ — (to) a wall, (to) the wall, (for) a wall, (for) the wall
- ΤΕΙΧΙΟΥ — of a little wall, of a small wall, of a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΟΝ — wall, a wall, city wall, a city wall
- ΤΕΙΧΟΣ — wall, a wall
- ΤΕΙΧΟΣΔ' — wall, a wall, but a wall, and a wall, moreover a wall, wall (number 4)
- ΤΕΙΧΟΥΣ — of a wall, of a city wall, of a fortification
- ΤΕΙΧΩΝ — of a wall, of walls
- ΤΕΤΕΙΧΟΣ — wall, a wall
- ΤΙΧΕΙ — (to) wall, (to) a wall, (in) wall, (in) a wall
- ΤΙΧΕΣΙΝ — to walls, for walls, by walls, with walls
- ΤΙΧΕΩ — of walls, to walls, walls
- ΤΙΧΕΩΝ — of walls, of a wall
- ΤΙΧΗ — walls, a wall
- ΤΙΧΗΡΕΙΣ — walled, fortified, having walls
- ΤΙΧΙ — wall, a wall, city wall, a city wall, fortification, a fortification
- ΤΟΙΣΤΕΙΧΕΣΙΝ — (to) the walls, (to) the fortifications
- ΤΟΤΕΙΧΟΣ — the wall, a wall
- ΤΩΤΕΙΧΕΙ — to the wall, for the wall
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