King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3846
Transliteration: paraballō
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-al'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw beside
Meaning: to throw beside
παραβάλλω: 2 aorist παρέβαλον;
Word Summary
paraballō: to throw beside
Original Word: παραβάλλωTransliteration: paraballō
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-al'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw beside
Meaning: to throw beside
Strong's Concordance
arrive, cross over From para and ballo; to throw alongside, i.e. (reflexively) to reach a place, or (figuratively) to liken -- arrive, compare.
see GREEK para
see GREEK ballo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3846: παραβάλλωπαραβάλλω: 2 aorist παρέβαλον;
1. to throw before, cast to (cf. παρά, Winers Grammar, 1) (Homer, Plato, Polybius, Dio Cassius, others; as fodder to horses, Homer, Iliad 8, 504).
2. to put one thing by the side of another for the sake of comparison, to compare, liken (Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Herodian): τήν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν παραβολή, to portray the kingdom of God (in), by the use of, a similitude, Mark 4:30 R G L marginal reading Tr marginal reading (cf. Buttmann, § 133, 22).
3. reflexively, to put oneself, betake oneself into a place or to a person (Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, (Diogenes Laërtius); of seamen (Herodotus 7, 179; Demosthenes, p. 163, 4; εἰς Ποτιόλους, Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 4), εἰς Σάμον, Acts 20:15 (put in at (R. V. touched at)). For another use of this verb in Greek writings see παραβολεύομαι.