noun · feminine
paresias
Strong’sG3929
overlooking
stem paresi-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.
* πάρεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< παρίημι),
SYN.: ἄφεσις, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3929 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar'-es-is
praetermission, i.e. toleration
Fromfrom G2935;
King Jamesremission.
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
letting go, dismissal, τινὸς ἐκ Συρακουσῶν Refs 1st c.AD+“Comp.Dion. Brut.” 2; release, Refs 1st c.BC+
IIslackening of strength, paralysis, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς ὕλης π. Refs 5th c.AD+
IIIremission of debts, χρημάτων π. Refs 3rd c.BC+; of sins, NT
IV neglect, 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 | paresias | paresiais |
| object accusative | paresian1×πάρεσιν | paresiain |
| direct address vocative | paresiar | paresiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | paresiau | paresiaiu |
| to, for dative | paresia | paresiai |
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
paresia 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
paresian“passed over”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 3:25… endeixian tau dikaiosunau autou dia tan paresian teiu progenarēnteiu hamartēmeiu… because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.