Strong G3847παράβασις

transgression

Transliteration
parabasis
Pronunciation
par-ab'-as-is
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G3845; violation: - breaking transgression.

Detailed definition

παρά-βασις, -εως, ἡ
(παραβαίνω), [in LXX: Psa.101:3 (שֵׂט), 4Ki.2:24 A, Wis.14:31, 2Ma.15:10 *;]
1. a going aside, a deviation (Arist.).

2. In later writers, an overstepping; metaphorically, transgression (Plut., al.): Rom.4:15 5:14, Heb.2:2 9:15; τ. νόμου, Rom.2:23; ἐν π., 1Ti.2:14; τ. παραβάσεων χάριν, Gal.3:19
SYN.: see: ἁμαρτία (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3847 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • transgression6
  • break1
  • of1

First verses

  1. Romans 2:23
    Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
  2. Romans 4:15
    Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
  3. Romans 5:14
    Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
  4. Galatians 3:19
    Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  5. 1 Timothy 2:14
    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
  6. Hebrews 2:2
    For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
  7. Hebrews 9:15
    And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
παρά-βᾰσις,
Epic dialect παραίβ-, εως, ἡ, going aside, escape, παραίβασις ἔσσετ᾽ ὀλέθρου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.832)]; deviation, variant in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1307b33, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.649b (_plural_))]; digression, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.2, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 12.5 (_plural_).)]
2 of the action of walking, π. καὶ παράλλαξις σκελῶν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 6.)]
3 transition, passage, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1012.31.)]
II overstepping, ὅρων [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.122e; ἔθους 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 12.8.9; τοῦ πατρίου νόμου 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 18.8.2; τῶν δικαίων παραβάσεις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Comp. Ages.Pomp.” 1)]: absolutely, transgression, [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+ (LXX.4Ki.2.24, NT.Gal.3.19, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.209a, 746c, etc.)]; error, illusion, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 11.7)]; compare παραβασία.
III parabasis, a part of the Old Comedy, in which the Chorus came forward (compare παραβαίνω IV) and addressed the audience in the Poet's name, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.711f, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” 8, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 733, etc.)]