Lexical Summary peran: on the other side Original Word: πέρανTransliteration: peran Phonetic Spelling: (per'-an) Part of Speech: Adverb Short Definition: on the other side Meaning: on the other side Strong's Concordance beyond, further, over. Apparently accusative case of an obsolete derivative of peiro (to "pierce"); through (as adverb or preposition), i.e. Across -- beyond, farther (other) side, over. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4008: περαιτέρωπεραιτέρω (from περαίτερος, comparitive of πέρα), adverb, from Aeschylus down, further, beyond, besides: Acts 19:39 L Tr WH, for R G περί ἑτέρων. With this compare οὐδέν ζητήσετέ περαιτέρω, Plato, Phaedo, c. 56, at the end, p. 107 b. STRONGS NT 4008: πέρανπέραν, Ionic and epic περην, adv, from Homer down; the Sept. for עֵבֶר; beyond, on the other side; a. τό πέραν, the region beyond, the opposite shore: Matthew 8:18, 28; Matthew 14:22; Matthew 16:5; Mark 4:35; Mark 5:21; Mark 6:45; Mark 8:13. b. joined (like a preposition) with a genitive (Winer's Grammar, § 54, 6): πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης, John 6:22, 25; πέραν τοῦ Ιορδάνου, Matthew 4:15; Matthew 19:1; (Mark 10:1 L T Tr WH); John 1:28; John 3:26; with verbs of going it marks direction toward a place (over, beyond) John 6:1, 17; John 10:40; John 18:1; of the place whence (Matthew 4:25); Mark 3:8. τό πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης, Mark 5:1; (τοῦ Ιορδάνου, Mark 10:1 R G); τῆς λίμνης, Luke 13:22 (τοῦ ποταμοῦ, Xenophon, an. 3, 5, 2). (See Sophocles, Lexicon, under the word.) |
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