noun · feminine
paratērēsias
Strong’sG3907
observation
stem paratērēsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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-τήρησις, -εως, ἡ,
[in Aq.: Ex 12:42 (v.s. παρατηρέω)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3907 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-at-ay'-ray-sis
inspection, i.e. ocular evidence
Fromfrom G3906;
King Jamesobervation.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
observation, διειλημμένοι εἰς παρατήρησιν kept under surveillance, Aen.Refs 5th c.BC+; ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. Refs 1st c.AD+; μετὰ παρατηρήσεως so that it can be observed, NT.Luke.17.20: in bad sense, close observation, to detect faults, etc., Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἐνέδρα καὶ π. Refs 1st c.AD+; empirical observation, opposed to λογισμός, Refs 2nd c.AD+; so κατὰ ἱστορίαν ἢ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
2. observance of rules, etc., Refs 2nd c.BC+
3. remark, note, παρατηρήσεως ἄξια Refs 5th c.BC+; ψιλὴ π. bare notice, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | paratērēsias | paratērēsiais |
| object accusative | paratērēsian | paratērēsiain |
| direct address vocative | paratērēsiar | paratērēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | paratērēsiau1×παρατηρήσεως | paratērēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | paratērēsia | paratērēsiai |
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
paratērēsia 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
paratērēsiau“observed”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 17:20“observed”… erchotō tas basileias tou theou meta paratērēsiau,… Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.