Greek verb · G3886
παραλύω
paralyopar-al-oo'-o
to loose from the side, set free.; to weaken, enfeeble
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paralýō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3886is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3886
to loosen beside, i.e. relax (perfect passive participle, paralyzed or enfeebled)
The King James renders it: feeble, sick of the (taken with) palsy.
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
paralyo is rendered "to loose from the side, set free.; to weaken, enfeeble". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to loose from the side, set free.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 5:18Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
Luke 5:18παραλελυμένος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to loose from the side, set free., and to weaken, enfeeble.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to loose from the side, set free. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 5:18Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat… |
| to weaken, enfeeblepass., to be enfeebled, esp. by a paralytic stroke | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 5:18Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat… |
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρά | para | from/with/beside | Uses192 |
| παραδίδωμι | paradidomi | to deliver | Uses119 |
| παρακαλέω | parakaleo | to plead/comfort | Uses108 |
| παραβολή | parabole | parable | Uses50 |
| παραλαμβάνω | paralambano | to take | Uses49 |
| παραγίνομαι | paraginomai | to come | Uses36 |
| παραγγέλλω | parangello | to order | Uses31 |
| παράκλησις | paraklesis | encouragement | Uses29 |
| παράπτωμα | paraptoma | trespass | Uses19 |
| παρατίθημι | paratithemi | to set before | Uses19 |
| παραχρῆμα | parachrema | instantly | Uses18 |
| παράδοσις | paradosis | tradition | Uses13 |
and 60 more on the stem.
All 5, 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
- παραλελυμένος2
- παραλελυμένα1
- παραλελυμένοι1
- παραλελυμένῳ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-RPP-NSM
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · neuter plural1V-RPP-APN
- verb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-RPP-DSM
- verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-RPP-NPM
Luke
two uses
Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
- παραλελυμένοςparalelumenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: paralyzed
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
- παραλελυμένῳparalelumenoverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: paralyzed
Acts
two uses
With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.
- παραλελυμένοιparalelumenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: paralyzed
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
- παραλελυμένοςparalelumenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: paralyzed
Hebrews
one use
Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
- παραλελυμέναparalelumenaverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: enfeebled
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.