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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 spake to them many things in similes, saying: 'Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:10 - And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:13 - 'Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, 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 ye the simile of the sower:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:24 - Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:31 - Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:33 - Another simile spake he to them: 'The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:34 - All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:35 - that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:36 - Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, 'Explain to us the simile 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 finished these similes, he removed thence,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:15 - And Peter answering said to him, 'Explain to us this simile.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:33 - 'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

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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 similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:32 - 'And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer is nigh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:23 - And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, 'How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:2 - and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:10 - And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:11 - and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:13 - And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:30 - And he said, 'To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:33

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:34 - and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:17 - And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:1 - And he began to speak to them in similes: 'A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-winevat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:12 - And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:28 - 'And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:23 - And he said unto them, 'Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:36 - And he spake also a simile unto them -- 'No one a patch of new clothing doth put on old clothing, and if otherwise, the new also doth make a rent, and with the old the patch doth not agree, that is from the new.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:39 - And he spake a simile to them, 'Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:4 - And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:9 - And his disciples were questioning him, saying, 'What may this simile be?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:10 - And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; 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 - 'And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:16 - And he spake a simile unto them, saying, 'Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:41 - And Peter said to him, 'Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:6 - And he spake this simile: 'A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:7 - And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:3 - And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:1 - And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:9 - And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:11 - And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile, because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the reign of God is about presently to be made manifest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:9 - And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad 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 to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:29 - And he spake a simile to them: 'See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:9 - which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:19 - reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him.
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