STRONGS G3846:
παραβάλλω: 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.
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