περίοικος G4040

Home gloss: surrounding country
Instead of (KJV / RSV): plain / valley / surrounding country
Note: The land dwelt round about (19:25, 29); of persons, "neighbors" (Luke 1:58), where the collocation decides. "Region around" is περίχωρος's
Rulings: 2, 3

Occurrences (2)

19:25 and he overturned these cities, in which Lot was dwelling, and all the surrounding country, and all those dwelling in the cities, and all that springs up out of the land.
19:29 And it came to be, when the Lord rubbed out all the cities of the surrounding country, that God remembered Abraham, and sent out Lot from the middle of the overturning, when the Lord overturned the cities in which Lot was dwelling.