Greek noun (feminine) · G3942
παροιμία
paroimiapar-oy-mee'-ah
a wayside saying (Hesych.; In NT, of figurative discourse (as מָשַׁל
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paroimía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3942is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3942
apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration
The King James renders it: parable, proverb.
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
paroimia is rendered "a wayside saying (Hesych.; In NT, of figurative discourse (as מָשַׁל". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a wayside saying (Hesych.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 10:6Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
John 10:6παροιμίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a wayside saying (Hesych., and In NT, of figurative discourse (as מָשַׁל.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a wayside saying (Hesych. | Tagged as
| Where2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and… |
| In NT, of figurative discourse (as מָשַׁלIsa.14:4 | Tagged as
| WhereIsaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρουσία | parousia | coming | Uses24 |
| πάροικος | paroikos | foreigner | Uses4 |
| παροικέω | paroikeo | be a stranger | Uses2 |
| παροικία | paroikia | sojourning | Uses2 |
| πάροινος | paroinos | drunken | Uses2 |
| παροξύνω | paroxyno | to provoke | Uses2 |
| παροργίζω | parorgizo | to anger | Uses2 |
| παροξυσμός | paroxysmos | stirring up | Uses2 |
| πάροδος | parodos | passing by | Uses1 |
| παροψίς | paropsis | dish | Uses1 |
| παρόμοιος | paromoios | like | Uses1 |
| παροτρύνω | parotryno | to incite | Uses1 |
and 3 more on the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- παροιμίαις2
- παροιμίαν2
- παροιμίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
John
four uses
Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
- παροιμίανparoimiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: allegory
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
- παροιμίαιςparoimiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: allegories
- παροιμίαιςparoimiaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: allegories
His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
- παροιμίανparoimiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: allegory
2 Peter
one use
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.”
- παροιμίαςparoimiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: proverb
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.