STRONGS NUMBER G3901


Word Summary
pararreō: to flow by, slip away
Original Word: παραρρέω
Transliteration: pararreō
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ar-hroo-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to flow by, slip away
Meaning: to flow by, slip away
Strong's Concordance
drift away

From para and the alternate of rheo; to flow by, i.e. (figuratively) carelessly pass (miss) -- let slip.

see GREEK para

see GREEK rheo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3901: παραρρέω

παραρρέω; (παρά and ῤέω); from Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato down; to flow past (παραρρέον ὕδωρ, Isaiah 44:4), to glide by: μήποτε παραρρυῶμεν (2 aorist passive subjunctive; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 287; (Veitch, under the word ῤέω; WHs Appendix, p. 170); but L T Tr WH παραρυῶμεν; see Rho), lest we be carried past, pass by (R. V. drift away from them) (missing the thing), i. e. lest the salvation which the things heard show us how to obtain slip away from us, Hebrews 2:1. In Greek authors παρραρει μοι τί, a thing escapes me, Sophocles Philoct. 653; tropically, slips from my mind, Plato, legg. 6, p. 781 a.; in the sense of neglect, μή παρραρυης, τήρησον δέ ἐμήν βουλήν, Proverbs 3:21.