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Peran names what is beyond, across, or on the other side. In the Gospels it often appears around bodies of water, the Jordan region, travel into Gentile or border spaces, and Jesus' movement from one ministry scene to another.
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Peran names what is beyond, across, or on the other side. In the Gospels it often appears around bodies of water, the Jordan region, travel into Gentile or border spaces, and Jesus' movement from one ministry scene to another.
The BSB source-word alignment has 24 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include other side (8), beyond (6), across (3), on the other side (2), . . . (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:15. Its strongest book concentrations include John (8), Mark (7), Matthew (7), Acts (1).
Peran names what is beyond, across, or on the other side. In the Gospels it often appears around bodies of water, the Jordan region, travel into Gentile or border spaces, and Jesus' movement from one ministry scene to another. The word is spatial before it is symbolic. It can mark geography, direction, or arrival, and only the passage can show whether the crossing also carries theological weight.
Sometimes the other side is where crowds gather. Sometimes it is where Jesus confronts demons, teaches, feeds, withdraws, or enters the garden before His arrest. Peran helps readers pay attention to movement, boundaries, and mission without turning every crossing into an allegory.
Peran marks a beyond or across location. Gospel writers use it for movement over water, regions beyond the Jordan, and transitions into new ministry scenes.
When Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea.
Jesus gives orders to cross to the other side when crowds gather. The word marks deliberate movement away from one ministry setting.
When that evening came, He said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side.”
Jesus says, let us cross to the other side. The crossing leads into storm, fear, and a display of His authority.
One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.
Luke also frames the lake crossing as Jesus' initiative. The other side becomes the setting for authority over danger and demons.
All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John locates the baptismal witness at Bethany beyond the Jordan. The term anchors testimony in a concrete place.
After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias).
Jesus crosses to the other side of the Sea of Galilee before the feeding sign. The movement introduces a new sign scene.
After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
Jesus goes across the Kidron Valley into a garden after His prayer. The crossing marks the transition into betrayal and arrest.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. other side
adv., [in LXX for עֵבֶר and cognate forms ;] on the other side, across (usually with the idea of water lying between);
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
πέραν is from an obsolete root - no further derivation.
Peran keeps the reader's feet on the ground while following Jesus across real spaces. The other side may be a lake shore, a Jordan location, a crowd setting, a sign scene, or the garden near the Passion. Those crossings matter because biblical events happen in places, but the word itself does not turn geography into allegory. Instead, it invites careful narrative reading: who initiates the crossing, what danger or need waits there, and how does God reveal His purpose in the next scene?
For teachers, peran is a doorway into mission movement without losing the concrete geography of the text.
Mark.4.35
Peran can function as a preposition or adverbial location marker. It signals beyond, across, or the other side, so the physical referent must be named before any theological synthesis is drawn.
Scripture often treats boundary crossings as real movements where God's purposes unfold, from rivers and wilderness journeys to Gospel lake crossings. Peran belongs to that geography of mission, witness, testing, and obedience without making every crossing carry the same symbolism.
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