noun · masculine
paroxusmos
Strong’sG3948
incitement, irritation
stem paroxusm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
παροξυσμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< παροξύνω), [in LXX: De 29:(28) 27, Je 39 (32):37 (קֶצֶף)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3948 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpar-ox-oos-mos'
incitement (to good), or dispute (in anger)
Fromfrom G3947 ("paroxysm");
King Jamescontention, provoke 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
irritation, exasperation, NT+4th c.BC+; π. ἀγάπης provoking or exciting to.., NT
2 severe fit of a disease, paroxysm, 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 | paroxusmos1×παροξυσμὸς | paroxusmois |
| object accusative | paroxusmon1×παροξυσμὸν | paroxusmoin |
| direct address vocative | paroxusmor | paroxusmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | paroxusmou | paroxusmoiu |
| to, for dative | paroxusmo | paroxusmoi |
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
paroxusmo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
paroxusmos“sharp disagreement”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 15:39“sharp disagreement”geneta de paroxusmos hōste apochōrizira autoin apo allēloiu, ton …… so sharp that they parted company …
paroxusmon“provoke”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 10:24“provoke”kai katanoaneiō allēloin eis paroxusmon agapau kai kaleiu ergeiu,And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.