adjective
paraplēsiem
Strong’sG3897
near to, nearly
stem paraplēsi-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* παρα-πλήσιος, -α, -ον (Hdt., Plat., al.; also -ος, -ον, Thuc., Polyb.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3897 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 5th c.BC+; also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+:— coming alongside of: hence, coming near, nearly resembling; of numbers, nearly equal, about as many; of size, about as large; of age, about equal; etc.:
1 absolutely, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοιαῦτα καὶ π. such and such-like, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰς πράξεις ὁμοίας καὶ π. ἀποβαίνειν Isoc. [prev. cited]; ταὐτόν ἐστι σοφιστὴς καὶ ῥήτωρ, ἢ ἐγγύς τι καὶ παραπλήσιον Refs 5th c.BC+
2 frequently with dative, ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίῃ παραπλήσιοι ἀλλήλοισι ἐγίνοντο were about equal, of a drawn battle, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅμοι᾽ ἢ π. τούτοις Refs 5th c.BC+; ἦχος συριγμοῦ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
3 followed by a relative, τρόπῳ παραπλησίῳ, τῷ καὶ Μασσαγέται Refs 5th c.BC+; also π. πάσχουσιν ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ.. Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb, π. ὡς εἰ.., perinde ac si.., Refs 5th c.BC+ about the same distance and not much more, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ π. Refs 1st c.BC+ adverb -ίωςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἆρά γ᾽ ὁμοίως ἢ π.; Refs 4th c.BC+; ἀγωνισάμενος π. having fought with nearly equal advantage, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. καὶ.., Latin perinde ac.., Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἔχει καθάπερ.. Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative παραπλησιαίτερον Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | paraplēsios | paraplēsias | paraplēsiem1×παραπλήσιον | paraplēsiois | paraplēsiais | paraplēsieim |
| object accusative | paraplēsion | paraplēsian | paraplēsioin | paraplēsiain | ||
| direct address vocative | paraplēsior | paraplēsiar | paraplēsioir | paraplēsiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | paraplēsiou | paraplēsiau | paraplēsieu | paraplēsioiu | paraplēsiaiu | paraplēsieiu |
| to, for dative | paraplēsio | paraplēsia | paraplēsie | paraplēsioi | paraplēsiai | paraplēsiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
paraplēsi is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
paraplēsiem“nearly”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Philippians 2:27kai gar asthenata paraplēsiem thanato; alla tos theos elēata auton, …He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy …