περί

Vocabulary form:

periv

Definition:

gen: concerning, about; acc: around

Frequency:

333

GK:

4309

Cognates:

The perimeter (perivmetroV) is the boundary around an object or area.

Mnemonics:

Gen, I need to speak to you about Perry.

He's been accusing people all around town.

Mnemonic Singing:

For the love which from our birth,
over and around us lies

Notes:

The final iota elides only when the following word begins with an iota.

Biblical Concordance

Jude 1:3	Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about (peri \| περί \| prep-gen) our common salvation, nevertheless I find it necessary to write and encourage you to carry on the struggle for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:7	Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring (peri \| περί \| prep-acc) towns, which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:9	But when Michael the archangel, in debate with the devil, was arguing about (peri \| περί \| prep-gen) the body of Moses, he did not presume to condemn him for blasphemy, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 1:15	to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of (peri \| περί \| prep-gen) all their ungodly acts that they have committed in their ungodliness, and of (peri \| περί \| prep-gen) all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Revelation 15:6	and out of the temple came the seven angels who had the seven plagues. They were clothed in linen, clean and bright, wearing golden sashes across (peri \| περί \| prep-acc) their chests.