King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3929
Transliteration: paresis
Phonetic Spelling: (par'-es-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a letting go
Meaning: a letting go
πάρεσις, παρεσισεως, ἡ (παρίημι, which see), pretermission, passing over, letting pass, neglecting, disregarding: διά τήν πάρεσιν ... ἀνοχή τοῦ Θεοῦ, because God had patiently let pass the sins committed previously (to the expiatory death of Christ), i. e. bad tolerated, had not punished (and so man's conception of his holiness was in danger of becoming dim, if not extinct), Romans 3:25, where cf. Fritzsche; (Trench, § xxxiii. (Hippocrates, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others)).
Word Summary
paresis: a letting go
Original Word: πάρεσιςTransliteration: paresis
Phonetic Spelling: (par'-es-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a letting go
Meaning: a letting go
Strong's Concordance
remission. From ktetor; praetermission, i.e. Toleration -- remission.
see GREEK ktetor
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3929: πάρεσιςπάρεσις, παρεσισεως, ἡ (παρίημι, which see), pretermission, passing over, letting pass, neglecting, disregarding: διά τήν πάρεσιν ... ἀνοχή τοῦ Θεοῦ, because God had patiently let pass the sins committed previously (to the expiatory death of Christ), i. e. bad tolerated, had not punished (and so man's conception of his holiness was in danger of becoming dim, if not extinct), Romans 3:25, where cf. Fritzsche; (Trench, § xxxiii. (Hippocrates, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others)).