Strong’s G4066 · Greek
περίχωρος
períchōros · per-ikh'-o-ros
Origin from περί (G4012) and χώρα (G5561);
Meaning around the region, i.e. circumjacent (as noun, with γῆ (G1093) implied vicinity)
In the King James Version country (round) about, region (that lieth) round about.
In 10 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 3:5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
- Matthew 14:35And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
- Mark 1:28And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
- Mark 6:55And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
- Luke 3:3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
- Luke 4:14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
- Luke 4:37And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
- Luke 7:17And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.
- Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
- Acts 14:6They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.