STRONGS NUMBER G3846

Original Word: παραβάλλω
Transliteration: paraballō
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-al'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw beside
Meaning: to throw besidearrive, cross over

From para and ballo; to throw alongside, i.e. (reflexively) to reach a place, or (figuratively) to liken -- arrive, compare.

see GREEK para

see GREEK ballo

STRONGS NT 3846: παραβάλλω

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.