περί

periv periv (akin to
pevra,
pevran; (Curtius, sec. 359)), preposition, joined in the N. T. with the genitive and the accusative (in classical Greek also with the dative), and indicating that the person or thing relative to which an act or state is predicated is as it were encompassed by this act or state; Latin circum, circa; around, about.I. with the GENITIVE it denotes that around which an act or state revolves; about, concerning, as touching, etc. (Latin de, quod attinet ad, causa with a genitive propter) (cf. Winer's Grammar, 372f (349)). a. about, concerning, (Latin de; in later Latin also circa): after verbs of speaking, teaching, writing, etc., see under
ajnaggevllw,
ajpagmai,
diagnwrivzw,
dialevgomai,
didavskw,
dihgou'mai (),
dihvghsi",
ei\pon and
proei'pon,
ejperwtavw and
ejrwtavw,
kathcevw,
lalevw,
levgw,
lovgon
aijtevw,
lovgon
ajpodivdwmi,
lovgon
divdwmi,
marturevw,
mneiva,
mnhmoneuvw,
prokataggevllw,
profhteuvw,
uJpomimnhv/skw,
crhmativzomai,
h\co",
fhvmh, etc.; after verbs of hearing, knowing, ascertaining, inquiring, see under
ajkouvw,
ginwvskw,
ejpivstamai,
ei\don,
ejxetavzw,
zhtevw,
ejkzhtevw,
ejpizhtevw,
zhvthma,
punqavnomai, etc.; after verbs of thinking, deciding, supposing, doubting, etc.; see under
dialogivzomai,
ejnqumevomai,
pevpeismai,
pisteuvw,
diaporevw,
ejlevgcw, etc. b. as respects (A. V. often (as) touching);
a. with verbs, to indicate that what is expressed by the verb (or verbal noun) holds so far forth as some person or thing is concerned; with regard to, in reference to: ; ;
hJ
periv
sou
mneiva, ;
ejxousivan
e[cein, ;
ejpitaghvn
e[cein, ibid. 25; see
ejntevllomai,
ejntolhv,
parakalevw,
paramuqevomai,
provfasi",
e[kdiko",
lagcavnw to cast lots.
b. with the neuter plural (and singular) of the article,
tav
periv
tivno" the things concerning a person or thing, i. e. what relates to, can be said about, etc.:
tav
periv
th'"
basileiva"
tou'
Qeou', ; (Rec.); (here L Tr WH omit
tav);
tav
periv
th'"
oJdou', ; with the genitive of a person one's affairs, his condition or state: ; ; ; ff; ; in a forensic sense, one's cause or case, ;
tav
periv
!Ihsou' (or
tou'
kurivou) (the (rumors) about Jesus (as a worker of miracles), T Tr marginal reading brackets WH); the things (necessary to be known and believed) concerning Jesus, ; ; Rec., 31; the things that befell Jesus, his death, ; the things in the O. T. relative to him, the prophecies concerning him, ; the career, death, appointed him by God, (here T Tr WH
tov etc.).
g.
periv
tivno", absolutely, at the beginning of sentences, concerning, as to: ; ; ,; but in other places it is more properly taken with the following verb, ; ; ; ; ,<<ref:BHS/GNT_1Co 8: