STRONGS G4007:
πέρ, an enclitic particle, akin to the preposition
περί (Herm. de part.
ἄν, p. 6;
Curtius, § 359; cf. Lob. Pathol. Elementa, i. 290; others (connect it directly with
πέραν, etc., and) give 'throughly' as its fundamental meaning; cf.
Bäumlein, Partikeln, p. 198), showing that the idea of the word to which it is annexed must be taken in its fullest extent; it corresponds to the Latin
circiter, cunque, German
noch so sehr, immerhin, wenigstens, ja; (English
however much, very much, altogether, indeed); cf. Hermann ad Vig., p. 791;
Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2, p. 722ff; (Donaldson, New Crat. § 178 at the end). In the N. T. it is affixed to the pronoun
ὅς and to sundry particles, see
διόπερ,
ἐάνπερ,
εἴπερ,
ἐπείπερ,
ἐπειδήπερ,
ἤπερ,
καθάπερ,
καίπερ,
ὅσπερ,
ὥσπερ. [(From
Homer down.)]
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