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Notes: The expression θάμβος γὰρ περιέσχεν αὐτόν in RV LUK 5:9 · LV LUK 5:9 · Read together LUK 5:9 is a clear example of a syntactic structure being formally the converse of the semantic structure. One may say amazement seized him, but clearly it is the person who experiences the amazement.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: περιέχω; aor.; περιέσχον

Related lemmas: ἔχω

Sense 1: to have, to contain

Semantic entry: 90.27

Semantic domains: Case

Subdomains: Content

Definition: a marker of designations of content

Notes: This word is found as a variant reading only: γράψαντες ἐπιστολὴν διὰ χειρὸς αὐτῶν περιέχουσαν τάδε ‘writing a letter through them having these (words)’ RV ACT 15:23 · LV ACT 15:23 · Read together ACT 15:23 (apparatus).

ACT 15:23: RV ACT 15:23 · LV ACT 15:23 · Read together ACT 15:23

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OET-RV ACT 15:23

23 This is what they wrote: This letter is from the missionaries and elders, your brothers here in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to our non-Jewish fellow believers in Antiokeia and Aram (Syria) and Kilikia.

OET-LV ACT 15:23

23 having _written by the_hand of _them:
The ambassadors and the elders, brothers, to _be _greeting to _the ones in the Antioⱪeia, and Suria/(ʼArām), and Kilikia, brothers which from the_pagans.

PE1 2:6: RV PE1 2:6 · LV PE1 2:6 · Read together PE1 2:6

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OET-RV PE1 2:6

6 because it’s written in the scriptures:
⇔ ‘Look, I’m placing a building-stone in Tsiyon (Zion),
⇔ the vital cornerstone that’s chosen and honoured,
⇔ and anyone who believes in him certainly won’t be disgraced.’

OET-LV PE1 2:6

6 Because it _is _contained in in _scripture:
Behold, I _am _laying a_stone in Siōn/(Tsiyyōn), a_cornerstone chosen honoured, and the one believing in him, by _no _means may_ not _be _disgraced.

Sense 2: to experience, to be seized by, to have happen to

Semantic entry: 90.69

Semantic domains: Case

Subdomains: Experiencer

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of περιέχω ‘to surround,’ not occurring in the NT) to experience an emotion or mood in an overwhelming manner

LUK 5:9: RV LUK 5:9 · LV LUK 5:9 · Read together LUK 5:9

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OET-RV LUK 5:9

9 Kefa and all those with him were stunned at the size of the catch,

OET-LV LUK 5:9

9 For/Because amazement seized him and all the ones with him, at the catch of _the fishes which they _captured,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

περιέχω

Form 1

Sense 1: to have, to contain

Sense 2: to experience, to be seized by, to have happen to