STRONGS G3901:
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.
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