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Greek noun (feminine) · G3847

παράβασις

parabasispar-ab'-as-is

a going aside, a deviation (Arist.).; In later writers

7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: parábasis

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3847is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 4
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3847

violation

The King James renders it: breaking, transgression.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

parabasis is rendered "a going aside, a deviation (Arist.).; In later writers". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a going aside, a deviation (Arist.).".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Romans 2:23παραβάσεως

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's seven uses are in Romans.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: a going aside, a deviation (Arist.)., and In later writers.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
a going aside, a deviation (Arist.).Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereRomans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
In later writersan oversteppingTagged as
  • transgression5
  • transgressions2
WhereRomans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

παράparafrom/with/besideUses192
παραδίδωμιparadidomito deliverUses119
παρακαλέωparakaleoto plead/comfortUses108
παραβολήparaboleparableUses50
παραλαμβάνωparalambanoto takeUses49
παραγίνομαιparaginomaito comeUses36
παραγγέλλωparangelloto orderUses31
παράκλησιςparaklesisencouragementUses29
παράπτωμαparaptomatrespassUses19
παράδοσιςparadosistraditionUses13
παραιτέομαιparaiteomaito refuse/excuseUses12
παράγωparagoto passUses10

and 51 more on the stem.

All 7, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

4 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • παραβάσεων2
  • παραβάσεως2
  • παράβασις2
  • παραβάσει1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural2N-GPF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF

Romans

three uses
  • You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

    Romans 2:23

    • παραβάσεωςparabaseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: transgression
  • because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

    Romans 4:15

    • παράβασιςparabasisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: transgression
  • Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

    Romans 5:14

    • παραβάσεωςparabaseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: transgression

Galatians

one use
  • Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

    Galatians 3:19

    • παραβάσεωνparabaseonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: transgressions

1 Timothy

one use
  • And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

    1 Timothy 2:14

    • παραβάσειparabaseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: transgression

Hebrews

two uses
  • For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

    Hebrews 2:2

    • παράβασιςparabasisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: transgression
  • Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

    Hebrews 9:15

    • παραβάσεωνparabaseonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: transgressions

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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