noun · feminine
paroimias
Strong’sG3942
an allegory, proverb
stem paroimi-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
παροιμία, -ας, ἡ
(< πάροιμος, by the way), [in LXX. Pr tit 1:1 25:1, (מָשָׁל) subscr., Si 6:35 8:8 18:29 39:3 47:17*;]
SYN.: παραβολή, q.v.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3942 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-oy-mee'-ah
apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration
Fromfrom a compound of G3844 and perhaps a derivative of G3633;
King Jamesparable, proverb.
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
proverb, maxim, saw, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ τὴν π. as the saying goes, Refs 5th c.BC+; καθάπερ ἡ π.Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, of the Proverbs of Solomon, LXX
2 figure, comparison, NT
3 digression, incidental remark, Refs 3rd 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 | paroimias | paroimiais |
| object accusative | paroimian2×παροιμίαν | paroimiain |
| direct address vocative | paroimiar | paroimiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | paroimiau1×παροιμίας | paroimiaiu |
| to, for dative | paroimia | paroimiai2×παροιμίαις |
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
paroimia 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
paroimian“figure of speech”objectaccusative singular2×
John 10:6“figure of speech”houtan tan paroimian legata autoi tos Iēsus; ekeinois de …Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not …
John 16:29“figure of speech”… Ide nun en parrēsia lalasō, kai paroimian oudenan legasō.… said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures …
paroimiau“proverb”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Peter 2:22“proverb”sumbainatē autoi tem tau alēthau paroimiau; Kunos epistrefarantos epi tem idiem exeramem, …Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
paroimiai“figures”to, fordative plural2×
John 16:25Houteim en paroimiai lalamē vi; erchotō hōras hote ouketi …… spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I …
John 16:25… vi; erchotō hōras hote ouketi en paroimiai lalami vi alla parrēsia peri tou …… spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming …