4029 - perikeimai

Strong's Concordance

Original word: περίκειμαι
Transliteration: perikeimai
Definition (short): hung
Definition (full): to lie around

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from peri and keimai
Definition: to lie around
NASB Translation: beset (1), hung (2), surrounding (1), wearing (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From peri and keimai; to lie all around, i.e. Inclose, encircle, hamper (literally or figuratively) -- be bound (compassed) with, hang about.

see GREEK peri

see GREEK keimai

KJV: And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
NASB: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.
KJV: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
NASB: "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.
KJV: For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
NASB: "For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel."
KJV: Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
NASB: he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;
KJV: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
NASB: Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,