Lexical Summary paraballō: to throw beside Original Word: παραβάλλωTransliteration: paraballō Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-al'-lo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to throw beside Meaning: to throw beside Strong's Concordance arrive, cross over From para and ballo; to throw alongside, i.e. (reflexively) to reach a place, or (figuratively) to liken -- arrive, compare. see GREEK para see GREEK ballo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3846: παραβάλλωπαραβάλλω: 2 aorist παρέβαλον; 1. to throw before, cast to (cf. παρά, Winers Grammar, 1) (Homer, Plato, Polybius, Dio Cassius, others; as fodder to horses, Homer, Iliad 8, 504). 2. to put one thing by the side of another for the sake of comparison, to compare, liken (Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Herodian): τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν παραβολή, to portray the kingdom of God (in), by the use of, a similitude, Mark 4:30 R G L marginal reading Tr marginal reading (cf. Buttmann, § 133, 22). 3. reflexively, to put oneself, betake oneself into a place or to a person (Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, (Diogenes Laërtius); of seamen (Herodotus 7, 179; Demosthenes, p. 163, 4; εἰς Ποτιόλους, Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 4), εἰς Σάμον, Acts 20:15 (put in at (R. V. touched at)). For another use of this verb in Greek writings see παραβολεύομαι. |
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