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Lexicon :: Strong's G3850 - parabolē

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παραβολή
Transliteration
parabolē (Key)
Pronunciation
par-ab-ol-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:744,773

Strong’s Definitions

παραβολή parabolḗ, par-ab-ol-ay'; from G3846; a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage:—comparison, figure, parable, proverb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x

The KJV translates Strong's G3850 in the following manner: parable (46x), figure (2x), comparison (1x), proverb (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 50x
The KJV translates Strong's G3850 in the following manner: parable (46x), figure (2x), comparison (1x), proverb (1x).

  1. a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle

  2. metaph.

    1. a comparing, comparison of one thing with another, likeness, similitude

    2. an example by which a doctrine or precept is illustrated

    3. a narrative, fictitious but agreeable to the laws and usages of human life, by which either the duties of men or the things of God, particularly the nature and history of God's kingdom are figuratively portrayed

    4. a parable: an earthly story with a heavenly meaning

  3. a pithy and instructive saying, involving some likeness or comparison and having preceptive or admonitory force

    1. an aphorism, a maxim

  4. a proverb

  5. an act by which one exposes himself or his possessions to danger, a venture, a risk

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παραβολή parabolḗ, par-ab-ol-ay'; from G3846; a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage:—comparison, figure, parable, proverb.
STRONGS G3850:
παραβολή, παραβολῆς, ἡ (παραβάλλω, which see), the Sept. for מָשָׁל;
1. a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle, Polybius 15, 2, 13; Diodorus 14, 60.
2. metaphorically, a comparing, comparison of one thing with another, likeness, similitude (Plato, Isocrates, Polybius, Plutarch): universally, Matthew 24:32; Mark 13:28; an example by which a doctrine or precept is illustrated, Mark 3:23; Luke 14:7; a thing serving as a figure of something else, Hebrews 9:9; this meaning also very many interpreters give the word in Hebrews 11:19, but see 5 below; specifically, "a narrative, fictitious but agreeable to the laws and usages of human life, by which either the duties of men or the things of God, particularly the nature and history of God's kingdom, are figuratively portrayed" (cf. B. D., see under the words, Fable, Parable (and references there; add Aristotle, rhet. 2, 20, 2ff and Cope's notes)): Matthew 13:3, 10, 13, 24, 31, 33-35, 53; Matthew 21:33, 45; (Matthew 22:1); Mark 4:2, 10,(Mark 4:11),Mark 4:13,30,33f; (Mark 7:17); Mark 12:1,(Mark 12:12); Luke 8:4, 9-11; Luke 12:16, 41; Luke 13:6; Luke 14:7; Luke 15:3; Luke 18:1, 9; Luke 19:11; Luke 20:9, 19; Luke 21:29; with a genitive of the person or thing to which the contents of the parable refer (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 1 a.): τοῦ σπείροντος, Matthew 13:18; τῶν ζιζανίων, Matthew 13:36; τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν παραβολή τιθέναι (literally, to set forth the kingdom of God in a parable), to illustrate (the nature and history of) the kingdom of God by the use of a parable, Mark 4:30 L text T Tr text WH.
3. "a pithy and instructive saying, involving some likeness or comparison and having preceptive or admonitory force; an aphorism, a maxim": Luke 5:36; Luke 6:39; Matthew 15:15 (Proverbs 1:6; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Sir. 3:29(27); Sir 13:26(25), etc.). Since sayings of this kind often pass into proverbs, παραβολή is
4. a proverb: Luke 4:23 (1 Samuel 10:12; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 18:2f).
5. an act by which one exposes himself or his possessions to danger, a venture, risk (in which sense the plural seems to be used by Plutarch, Aratus 22: διά πολλῶν ἑλιγμων καί παραβολῶν περαινοντες πρός τό τεῖχος (cf. Diodorus Siculus fragment book 30:9, 2; also variant in Thucydides 1, 131, 2 (and Poppo at the passage))); ἐν παραβολή, in risking him, i. e. at the very moment when he exposed his son to mortal peril (see παραβολεύομαι), Hebrews 11:19 (Hesychius ἐκ παραβολῆς. ἐκ παρακινδυνευματος); others with less probability explain it, in a figure, i. e. as a figure, either of the future general resurrection of all men, or of Christ offered up to God and raised again from the dead; others otherwise.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Samuel
10:12
Proverbs
1:6
Ecclesiastes
1:17
Ezekiel
12:22; 18:2
Matthew
13; 13:3; 13:10; 13:13; 13:18; 13:24; 13:31; 13:36; 13:53; 15:15; 21:33; 21:45; 22:1; 24:32
Mark
3:23; 4:2; 4:10; 4:11; 4:13; 4:30; 4:30; 4:33; 7:17; 12:1; 12:12; 13:28
Luke
4:23; 5:36; 6:39; 8; 8:4; 12:16; 12:41; 13:6; 14:7; 14:7; 15:3; 18:1; 18:9; 19:11; 20:9; 20:19; 21:29
Hebrews
9:9; 11:19; 11:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3850 matches the Greek παραβολή (parabolē),
which occurs 50 times in 48 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:3 - And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:10 - And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:13 - For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:18 - *Ye*, therefore, hear the parable of the sower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:24 - Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his field;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:31 - Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:33 - He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:34 - All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:35 - so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:36 - Then, having dismissed the crowds, he went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Expound to us the parable of the darnel of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:53

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:53 - And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these parables he withdrew thence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:15 - And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 - Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:45 - And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:1 - And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:32 - But learn the parable from the fig-tree: When already its branch becomes tender and produces leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:23 - And having called them to him, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:2 - And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:10 - And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him as to the parables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:11 - And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:13 - And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:30 - And he said, How should we liken the kingdom of God, or with what comparison should we compare it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:33 - And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:34 - but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:17 - And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:1 - And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:12 - And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:28 - But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:23 - And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:36 - And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:39 - And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? shall not both fall into the ditch?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:4 - And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:9 - And his disciples asked him saying, What may this parable be?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:10 - And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:11 - But the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16 - And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:41 - And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:6 - And he spoke this parable: A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find any.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:7 - And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:3 - And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:1 - And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:9 - And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:11 - But as they were listening to these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was about to be immediately manifested.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:9 - And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:19 - And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:29 - And he spoke a parable to them: Behold the fig-tree and all the trees;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:9 - the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:19 - counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.
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