δέρματα σωμάτων π

περιαιρ-έω, [tense] aor.

A

περιεῖλον Hdt.3.159

, etc.:—take away something that surrounds, strip off, remove, c. acc. rei, τεῖχος Hdt.l.c., cf. 6.46, Th.1.108, 4.51, 133; π. τὸν κέραμον taking off the earthen jar into which the gold had been run, Hdt.3.96;

π. τὸν χιτῶνα Arist.HA 557b20

; δέρματα σωμάτων π. strip skins off from.., Pl.Plt. 288e;

αὐτοῦ τὰ κοινὰ πάντα περιελόντες Id.Sph. 264e

;

π. τινὰ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐξουσίας Hdn.3.11.3

; simply, take away from,

τῶν πολεμικῶν τὸ μελετᾶν X.Cyr.2.1.21

, etc.:—[voice] Med., take off from oneself, π. τὴν κυνέην, τὴν σφρηγῖδα, take off one's helmet, one's signet-ring, Hdt.2.151, 3.41;

τὰς ταινίας Pl.Smp. 213a

; βυβλίον περιαιρεόμενος taking [the cover] off one's letter, i. e. opening it, Hdt.3.128;

π. τὴν ἐξουσίαν τῆς ἀπολογίας αὑτοῦ Lycurg.35

: but [voice] Med. is freq. used like [voice] Act., strip off, take away,

τὸ περιελέσθαι αὐτῶν τὰ ὅπλα X. Cyr.8.1.47

;

εἴ τις περιελοιτο τῆς ποιήσεως τὸ μέλος Pl.Grg. 502c

(v.l. for περιέλοι)

τὴν Ἀττικὴν ὑμῶν περιῄρηνται D.19.220

;

ἁπάντων τὴν ἐλευθερίαν περιείλετο Id.18.65

;

περιείλοντό μου ὑποζύγια δύο PCair.Zen.659.7

(iii B. C.):—[voice] Pass., to be taken off,

τοὐπίβλημ' ἐπεὶ περιῃρέθη Nicostr.Com.15

; τοῦ ἄλλου περιῃρημένου when the rest has been taken away, Th.3.11;

περιῃρημένων τοσούτων κακῶν Pl.Phdr. 231b

;

τείχη περιῃρημένα D.19.65

.

2 make void, cancel a vow, LXXNu.30.13.

3 strike off, cancel an item in an account, PCair.Zen. 147 (iii B. C.):—[voice] Pass., Sammelb.5136.8 (iii A. D.).

II [voice] Pass., c. acc. rei, to be stripped of a thing, have a thing taken off or away from one,

περιῃρημένοι χρήματα καὶ συμμάχους D.3.31

;

περιαιρεθεὶς τὰ ὄντα Id.21.138

;

τοὺς στεφάνους περιῄρηνται Id.26.5

: with acc. understood,

περιαιρεθήσεσθαι ἤμελλον Epicur.Nat.15.34

.

περιαιρέω fut. περιελῶ LXX; 2 aor. περιεῖλον LXX, inf. περιελεῖν, ptc. περιελών. Mid.: fut. 3 sing. περιελοῦνται (EpJer 57); 2 aor. 3 sg. περιείλατο (Jon 3:6; GJs 2:4). Pass.: impf. 3 sg. περιῃρεῖτο; fut. 3 sg. περιαιρεθήσεται LXX; pf. 3 pl. περιῄρηνται (TestJob 43, 4) (Hom. et al.; pap, LXX).

① take away from around someth., take away, remove (τείχη: Hdt. 3, 159; 6, 46; Thu. 1, 108, 3; δέρματα σωμάτων Pla., Polit. 288e; τὸν χιτῶνα Aristot., HA 5, 32) Ἅννα … περιείλατο τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῆς τὰ πενθικά Hannah (Anna) took off her mourning garments GJs 2:4. Pass., also gener. take away (PTebt 5, 146; 165 [118 B.C.]; Jos., Bell. 1, 179, Ant. 20, 212) περιαιρεῖται τὸ κάλυμμα the veil is removed 2 Cor 3:16 (cp. Ex 34:34). τὰς ἀγκύρας περιελόντες εἴων they cast off or slipped the anchors and let them go (i.e. they let go the ropes that held the anchors and thus abandoned them) Ac 27:40.—If the rdg. of the text 28:13 περιελόντες abs. is to be retained, the sense we got underway requires that τὰς ἀγκύρας be supplied=‘we weighed anchor’ (so NRSV; AAcworth, JTS 24, ’73, 193, favors the reading, but renders ‘fetched a compass’=made a change in direction). But Blass ad loc. rejects this rdg., and the sense assigned to it here is admittedly speculative (Metzger ad loc.). Haenchen suggests παρελθόντες ‘sailing along (the coast)’. REB: ‘we sailed up the coast’ (perh. rdg. περιελθόντε v.l. [so NRB ‘we sailed round’, s. The Greek NT, ed. RTasker ’64]; this v.l. also HConzelmann, Hermeneia: Acts, ‘we sailed along the coast’).

② to do away with, take away, remove (Ex 8:4, 27) ἁμαρτίας Hb 10:11 (the ‘removal’ of sin by God is also mentioned: 1 Ch 21:8; Zeph 3:11, 15. Cp. PCairZen 147, 3 [256 B.C.] π.=cancel an entry, a right, and for the fig. use also M. Ant. 12, 2 τὸν πολὺν περισπασμὸν σεαυτοῦ περιαιρήσεις; Alciphron 2, 25, 2 φόβον; Diog. L. 6, 7: to make it unnecessary to unlearn [anything]; 6, 10). Pass. περιῃρεῖτο ἐλπὶς πᾶσα all hope was gradually abandoned (impf.) Ac 27:20.—M-M. Spicq.