noun · feminine
parembolas
Strong’sG3925
a camp, barracks, army in battle array
stem parembol-10 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
παρ-εμ-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< παρεμβάλλω), [in LXX chiefly for מַחֲנֶה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3925 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-em-bol-ay'
a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia)
Fromfrom a compound of G3844 and G1685;
King Jamesarmy, camp, castle.
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
insertion, interpolation, ἑτέρων πραγμάτων Refs 5th c.BC+
2 Grammars, parenthesis, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II drawing up in battle-order, Refs 2nd c.BC+; in Tactics, insertion of men in the ranks (distinct from παρένταξις and παρεμπλοκή), Refs 1st c.BC+
II.b company of soldiers, etc., LXX; host, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 encampment, LXX+4th c.BC+: generally, soldiers' quarters, Refs 2nd c.BC+; barracks, NT+2nd c.AD+; name of an ἄμφοδον, Refs 3rd c.AD+
III ={παρεξειρεσία} (which see), Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV in boxing and wrestling, π. βάλλειν trip an adversary by a twist of the leg, Refs 1st 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 | parembolas | parembolais |
| object accusative | parembolan7×παρεμβολήν | parembolain1×παρεμβολὰς |
| direct address vocative | parembolar | parembolair |
| of, belonging to genitive | parembolau2×παρεμβολῆς | parembolaiu |
| to, for dative | parembola | parembolai |
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
parembola 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.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
parembolan“barracks”objectaccusative singular7×
Acts 21:34… thorubon keleuata agorō auton eis tan parembolan.… that Paul be brought into the barracks.
Acts 21:37Mellarōntos tē eisagorō eis tan parembolan tos Paulos legatō to chiliarcho; Ei …… about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I …
Acts 22:24… tos chiliarchos eisagorō auton eis tan parembolan, legarantos mastigai anetazorō auton hina epignōskateia …… that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged …
Acts 23:10… meseu autoiu, agarō tē eis tan parembolan.… force and bring him into the barracks.
Acts 23:16… enedran paragenerantos kai eisercharantos eis tan parembolan apangelata to Paulo.… the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
Acts 23:32… aperchorō sun auto hupostrefala eis tan parembolan;… next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on …
Revelation 20:9… platem tau gēau, kai kukleuala tan parembolan toiu hagioiu kai tan polan tan …… of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved …
parembolau“camp”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Hebrews 13:11… houteiu teim sōmeim katakaiotō exō tau parembolau;… the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Hebrews 13:13toinun exerchoneiō pros auton exō tau parembolau, ton oneidismon autou ferarōntois.… us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
parembolain“armies”objectaccusative plural1×
Hebrews 11:34… apo astheniau, genila ischurois en polemo, parembolain klinala allotrioiu;… mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.