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Koine Greek wordlink #145488

SR GNT Heb 12:1 περικείμενον (perikeimenon) ‘we so_much having encompassing around us a cloud of witnesses’ Strongs=40290 Lemma=perikeimai
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=middle case=accusative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=64 AD Refers to Word #145490

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Only use of identical word form περικείμενον (V-PPM·ANS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘περικείμενον’ (V-PPM·ANS) is always and only glossed as ‘encompassing’.

Heb 12:1 ‘we so_much having encompassing around us a cloud of witnesses’ SR GNT Heb 12:1 word 8

OET-LV:  So _then also we, so _much having encompassing around _us a_cloud of _witnesses, burden having _put _away every and the well _encompassing sin through endurance, may _be _running the lying _before before _us race, (HEB_12:1)

OET-RV:  So then with us having a cloud of witnesses around us, we should discard everything that’s a burden, as well as the sin that’s always so near to us. We should run the race that’s ahead of us with endurance, (HEB 12:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘perikeimai’ have 4 different glosses: ‘is hung_around’, ‘is_being encompassed’, ‘I am_being encompassed in’, ‘encompassing’.

Key: V=verb