noun · feminine
parathēkas
Strong’sG3866
anything committed to one's charge
stem parathēk-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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-θήκη, -ης, ἡ
(< παρατίθημι), [in LXX: Le 6:2, 4 (5:21, 23) (פִּקָּדוֹן), and in To 10:13, II Mac 3:10, 15, v.l. for παρακαταθήκη (q.v.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3866 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-ath-ay'-kay
a deposit, i.e. (figuratively) trust
Fromfrom G3908;
King Jamescommitted unto.
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
anything entrusted to one. deposit, LXX+5th c.BC+; of persons, hostage, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | parathēkas | parathēkais |
| object accusative | parathēkan3×παραθήκην | parathēkain |
| direct address vocative | parathēkar | parathēkair |
| of, belonging to genitive | parathēkau | parathēkaiu |
| to, for dative | parathēka | parathēkai |
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
parathēka 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
parathēkan“deposit”objectaccusative singular3×
1 Timothy 6:20Ō Timotheor, tan parathēkan fulassasar, ektraporōntos tain bebēlain kenofōniain kai …O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter …
2 Timothy 1:12… kai peithomē hoti dunatos atō tan parathēkan mu fulassara eis ekeinan tan hēmeran.… that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for …
2 Timothy 1:14“deposit”tan kalan parathēkan fulassasar dia pneumeu hagieu teu enoikarōnteu …Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.