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Lexicon :: Strong's G3942 - paroimia

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παροιμία
Transliteration
paroimia (Key)
Pronunciation
par-oy-mee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a compound of παρά (G3844) and perhaps a derivative of οἴομαι (G3633)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:854,790

Strong’s Definitions

παροιμία paroimía, par-oy-mee'-ah; from a compound of G3844 and perhaps a derivative of G3633; apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration:—parable, proverb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3942 in the following manner: proverb (4x), parable (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3942 in the following manner: proverb (4x), parable (1x).

  1. a saying out of the usual course or deviating from the usual manner of speaking

    1. a current or trite saying, a proverb

  2. any dark saying which shadows forth some didactic truth

    1. esp. a symbolic or figurative saying

    2. speech or discourse in which a thing is illustrated by the use of similes and comparisons

    3. an allegory

      1. extended and elaborate metaphor

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παροιμία paroimía, par-oy-mee'-ah; from a compound of G3844 and perhaps a derivative of G3633; apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration:—parable, proverb.
STRONGS G3942:
παροιμία, παροιμίας, ἡ (παρά by, aside from (cf. παρά, IV. 2), and οἶμος way), properly, a saying out of the usual course or deviating from the usual manner of speaking (cf. Suidas 654, 15; but Hesychius under the word, et al., 'a saying heard by the wayside' (παρά, IV. 1), i. e. a current or trite saying, proverb; cf. Curtius, § 611; Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word), hence,
1. a clever and sententious saying, a proverb (Aeschylus Ag. 264; Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, others; examples from Philo are given by Hilgenfeld, Die Evangelien, p. 292f (as de ebriet. § 20; de Abr. § 40; de vit. Moys. i. § 28; ii. § 5; de exsecrat. § 6); for מָשָׁל in Proverbs 1:1; Proverbs 25:1 the Alex. manuscript; Sir. 6:35, etc.): τό τῆς παροιμίας, what is in the proverb (Lucian, dial. mort. 6, 2; 8, 1), 2 Peter 2:22.
2. any dark saying which shadows forth some didactic truth, especially a symbolic or figurative saying: παροιμίαν λέγειν, John 16:29; ἐν παροιμίαις λαλεῖν, ibid. 25; "speech or discourse in which a thing is illustrated by the use of similes and comparisons; an allegory, i. e. extended and elaborate metaphor": John 10:6.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
1:1; 25:1
John
10:6; 16:29
2 Peter
2:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3942 matches the Greek παροιμία (paroimia),
which occurs 5 times in 4 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:6 - This figure G3942 of speech G3942 Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:25 -

“These things I have spoken to you in figures G3942 of speech G3942; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures G3942 of speech G3942, but will tell you openly of the Father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:29 -

His disciples *said, “Behold, now You are speaking openly and are not [fn]using a figure G3942 of speech G3942.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:22 - The [fn]message of the true proverb G3942 has happened to them, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”
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