περιτίθημι, 3 person plural περιτιθέασιν (Mar_15:17; see references in ἐπιτίθημι); 1 aorist περιέθηκα; 2 aorist participle περιθείς, περιθέντες; from Homer down; a. properly, to place around, set about, (cf. περί, III. 1): τίνι τί, as φραγμόν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι, Mat_21:33; Mar_12:1; to put a garment on one, Mat_27:28; στέφανον, put on (encircle one's head with) a crown, Mar_15:17 (Sir_6:31; Plato, Alcib. 2, p. 151 a.); τί τίνι, to put or bind one thing around another, Mat_27:48; Mar_15:36; Joh_19:29. b. tropically, τίνι τί, to present, bestow, confer, a thing upon one (so in classical Greek from Herodotus down, as ἐλευθερίαν, Herodotus 3, 142; δόξαν, Demosthenes, p. 1417, 3; see Passow, ii, p. 881f; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II.); τό ὄνομα, Wis_14:21; Thucydides 4, 87): τιμήν, 1Co_12:23; Est_1:20.

περιτίθημι peritithēmi 8x to place around, put about or around, Mat_21:33 ; Mat_27:28 ; met. to attach, bestow, 1Co_12:23

περι -τίθημι , [in LXX for H5414 , H7760 , etc.;] to place or put around: c . acc et dat ., Mat_21:33 ; Mat_27:48 , Mar_12:1 ; Mar_15:36 , Joh_19:29 ; of garments, etc., to put on: Mat_27:28 Mar_15:17 ( Sir_6:31 ). Metaph ., like περιβάλλω , to bestow, confer ( Thuc ., al. , Est_1:20 ): 1Co_12:23 .†

περιτίθημι [page 509] place around, clothe with, as in Mat_27:28 , may be illustrated from PSI I. 64 .17 (i/B.C. ?), where a woman who has offered to live with a man as his wife promises not to carry off certain articles of adornment if she leaves him ἐ̣α̣̣ν ἄλλ̣α χρυσίου κόσμου μετὰ τὰ προκείμεν̣[α . . .] . . ρησας μοι περιθῇς , οὐκ ἀπελε [ύ ]σομαι αὐτ [ὰ ] ἔχουσα . For the metaph. meaning bestow, confer, as in 1Co_12:23 (cf. Est_1:20 ), see BGU IV. 1141 .19 (B.C. 14) ε̣ἱ̣ς̣ σὺ μέν μοι καὶ τιμὴν περιτιθεῖς , P Giss I. 79 ( c. A.D. 117) ὡς εἰμὶ γυνὴ [π ]ᾳ̣σαν σπουδὴν περιτίθεμαι , and OGIS 331 .23 (mid. ii/B.C.) ὅπως δὲ καὶ σὺ εἰδῆις ὅτι περιτεθείκαμεν (cf. Meisterhans Gr. p. 189) τ [ὴν τ ]ιμὴν καὶ ταύτ [ην ] τῶι Ἀθηναίωι .

περιτίθημι fut. -θήσω aor1 περιέθηκα aor2 imperat. περίθες "to place round", Od. ; περιτιθέναι τί τινι Hdt. :—Mid. "to put round oneself, put on", Hom. , Eur. metaph., like περιβάλλω, "to bestow, confer upon", π. τινὶ βασιληίην, ἐλευθερίην Hdt. , Thuc. ; so, π. τὴν Μηδικὴν ἀρχὴν τοῖς Ἕλλησι "to put" the Median yoke "round" their necks, Thuc.

περι-τίθημι [in LXX for נָתַן, שׂוּם, etc. ;] to place or put around: with accusative and dative, Mat.21:33 27:48, Mrk.12:1 15:36, Jhn.19:29; of garments, etc., to put on: Mat.27:28 Mrk.15:17 (Sir.6:31). Metaphorical, like περιβάλλω, to bestow, confer (Thuc., al., Est.1:20): 1Co.12:23.† (AS)