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Koine Greek wordlink #54521

SR GNT Luke 17:2 περίκειται (perikeitai) ‘if a stone milling is hung_around around the neck’ Strongs=40290 Lemma=perikeimai
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=present voice=middle person=3rd number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form περίκειται (V-IPM3··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘περίκειται’ (V-IPM3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘is hung_around’.

Mark 9:42 ‘for him rather if is hung_around a grinding_stone heavy around’ SR GNT Mark 9:42 word 24

OET-LV: 42 And whoever wishfully may _stumble one of_ the these _little ones which believing in me, it _is better for _him rather if a_ heavy _grinding _stone is _hung _around around the neck of _him, and he _has _been _throw into the sea. (MRK_9:42)

OET-RV: 42 “But anyone who causes a young person to falter from their trust in me, it would be better if they were thrown into the sea with a heavy weight tied around their neck. (MRK 9:42)

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