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).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3901: παραρρέωπαραρρέω; ( παρά and ῤέω); from Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato down; to flow past ( παραρρέον ὕδωρ, Isaiah 44:4), to glide by: μήποτε παραρρυῶμεν (2 aorist passive subjunctive; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 287; ( Veitch, under the word ῤέω; WHs Appendix, p. 170); but L T Tr WH παραρυῶμεν; see Rho), lest we be carried past, pass by ( R. V. drift away from them) (missing the thing), i. e. lest the salvation which the things heard show us how to obtain slip away from us, Hebrews 2:1. In Greek authors παρραρει μοι τί, a thing escapes me, Sophocles Philoct. 653; tropically, slips from my mind, Plato, legg. 6, p. 781 a.; in the sense of neglect, μή παρραρυης, τήρησον δέ ἐμήν βουλήν, Proverbs 3:21.
Strong's drift away From para and the alternate of rheo; to flow by, i.e. (figuratively) carelessly pass (miss) -- let slip. see GREEK para see GREEK rheo |
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