peritithēmi · put around

What it means

peritithēmi (περιτίθημι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “put around”.

Place on.

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. To place on or about: a fence, a cloak, a crown; give more honor.

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

How it is translated

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

• put ×4
• putting ×2
• around ×1
• we bestow ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×3
• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×1

• Matthew 21:33

  Hear another parable. There was a man, a master of a house, who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Matthew 27:28

  And they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak around him.

• Matthew 27:48

  And at once one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with sour wine, and putting it on a reed, he was giving him a drink.

• Mark 12:1

  And he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers and went away on a journey.

• Mark 15:17

  And they clothe him in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

• Mark 15:36

  And someone ran, and filling a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and was giving him a drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”

• John 19:29

  A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so putting a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop, they held it to his mouth.

• 1 Corinthians 12:23

  and those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have greater decorum,