Quick Definition
I move about, make a circuit, tack
Strong's Definition
to come all around, i.e. stroll, vacillate, veer
Derivation: from G4012 (περί) and G2064 (ἔρχομαι) (including its alternate);
KJV Usage: fetch a compass, vagabond, wandering about
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
περιέρχομαι; 2 aorist περιῆλθον; from Herodotus down; to go about: of strollers, Act_19:13; of wanderers, Heb_11:37; of navigators (making a circuit), Act_28:13 (here WH περιελόντες, see περιαιρέω, a.); τάς οἰκίας, to go about from house to house, 1Ti_5:13.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
περιέρχομαι perierchomai 3x
to go about, wander about, rove, Act_19:13 ; Heb_11:37 ;
to go about, visit from house to house, 1Ti_5:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
περι -έρχομαι ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5437 ;]
to go about (as an itinerant): Act_19:13 ; Act_28:13 (περιελόντες , WH , R , mg .), Heb_11:37 ; τ . οἰκίας , from house to house: 1Ti_5:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
περιέρχομαι [page 505]
With the use of this verb in 1Ti_5:18 we may compare P Oxy VII. 1033 .12 (A.D. 392) μόνοι περιερχόμενοι τὴν πόλιν καὶ κατοπτεύοντες , going about the city alone and keeping watch. The verb occurs in connexion with an inheritance in PSI V. 452 .8 (iv/A.D.) ἀνδράπ [οδ ]α περιῆλθεν εἰς ἡμᾶς : cf. BGU IV. 1074 .5 (A.D. 275) ἡσθῆναι ἐπὶ τῷ εἰς ἐμὲ περιεληλυθέναι τὴν τῶν ὅλων κηδεμονίαν . Vett. Val. p. 40 .28 ποικίλως τὸν βίον περιερχομένους .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
περιέρχομαι Dep.: "to go round, go about", Hdt. , attic:— "to go about", like a beggar, Xen. ; like a canvasser, Lat. ambire, Dem. :—c. part. "to go about" doing a thing, Plat. :—c. acc. cogn., π. στάδια χίλια Ar. :—c. acc. loci, π. τὸν βωμόν "to go round" the altar, id=Ar. ; τὴν ἀγοράν Dem. c. acc. pers. "to come round, encompass", of sounds, περὶ κτύπος ἦλθε ποδοῖιν the sound of feet "came" round him, Od. ; of the effect of wine, Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθεν οἶνος id=Od. like Lat. circumvenire, to take in, to overreach, cheat, Hdt. , Ar. "to go round and return" to a point, "come round", ἡ βασιληίη περιῆλθε ἔς τινα Hdt. ; ἐς φθίσιν περιῆλθε ἡ νοῦσος the disease "ended" in . . , id=Hdt. ; c. acc., ἡ τίσις περιῆλθε τὸν Πανιώνιον vengeance "came at last upon" him, id=Hdt. of Time, "to come round", Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
περι-έρχομαι
[in LXX chiefly for סָבַב ;]
to go about (as an itinerant): Act.19:13 28:13 (περιελόντες, WH, R, mg.), Heb.11:37; τ. οἰκίας, from house to house: 1Ti.5:13.†
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