peran · across, beyond

What it means

peran (πέραν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “across, beyond”.

On the other side, across.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Past a river or lake.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• other side ×13
• beyond ×5
• across ×4
• sea ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×7
• Luke×1
• John×8

• Matthew 4:15

  “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

• Matthew 4:25

  And large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the Jordan.

• Matthew 8:18

  Now seeing large crowds around him, Jesus gave orders to go away to the other side.

• Matthew 8:28

  And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two men possessed by demons met him, coming out of the tombs, so violent that no one could pass along that road.

• Matthew 14:22

  And at once he made the disciples get into a boat and go ahead of him to the other side, until he sent the crowds away.

• Matthew 16:5

  And when the disciples came to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

• Matthew 19:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished these words that he departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

• Mark 3:8

  and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing all that he was doing, came to him.

• Mark 4:35

  And he says to them on that day, when evening had come, “Let us go across to the other side.”

• Mark 5:1

  And they came to the other side of the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes.

• Mark 5:21

  And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was beside the sea.

• Mark 6:45

  And at once he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, toward Bethsaida, while he dismisses the crowd.

• Mark 8:13

  And leaving them, he got into the boat again and went away to the other side.

• Mark 10:1

  And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them.

• Luke 8:22

  Now it happened on one of the days that he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” And they set sail.

• John 1:28

  These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was immersing.

• John 3:26

  And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you have testified, look, he is immersing, and everyone is going to him.”

• John 6:1

  After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, the Sea of Tiberias.

• John 6:17

  and getting into a boat, they were crossing the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

• John 6:22

  The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been no other boat there except one, and that Jesus had not gone in with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.

• John 6:25

  And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

• John 10:40

  And he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been immersing at first, and he stayed there.

• John 18:1

  Having said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron ravine, where there was a garden, into which he entered, and his disciples.