Verb perikeimai (to surround) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Mark

9: 42"If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were surrounding (perikeimai) your neck and you were thrown into the sea.

Luke

17: 2It would be better for you if a millstone were surrounding (perikeimai) your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Acts

28: 20For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am surrounded (perikeimai) by this chain."