Lexicon
pararreó: to flow by, hence slip away
Original Word: παραρρέωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pararreó
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ar-hroo-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I am lost, perish, drift away
Definition: (lit: I flow past, glide past, hence) I am lost, perish, or merely: I drift away (fall away) from duty.
HELPS word-Studies
3901 pararrhyéō (from 3844 /pará, "from close-beside" and 4483 /rhéō, "to flow, drift") – properly, to float (flow) alongside, drifting past a destination because pushed along by current.
3901 /pararrhyéō ("drift away from") only occurs in Heb 2:1 where it refers to going spiritually adrift – "sinning by slipping away" (from God's anchor). 3901 /pararrhyéō ("gradually drift away") means to "lapse" into spiritual defeat, describing how we slowly move away from our moorings in Christ.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
para and
rheóDefinitionto flow by, hence slip away
NASB Translationdrift away (1).