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parabolhv parabolhv,
parabolh'",
hJ (
parabavllw, which see), the Septuagint for lv;m;;1. a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle, Polybius 15, 2, 13; Diodorus 14, 60.2. metaphorically, a comparing, comparison of one thing with another, likeness, similitude (Plato, Isocrates, Polybius, Plutarch): universally, ; ; an example by which a doctrine or precept is illustrated, ; ; a thing serving as a figure of something else, ; this meaning also very many interpreters give the word in , but see 5 below; specifically, "a narrative, fictitious but agreeable to the laws and usages of human life, by which either the duties of men or the things of God, particularly the nature and history of God's kingdom, are figuratively portrayed" (cf. B. D., see under the words, Fable, Parable (and references there; add Aristotle, rhet. 2, 20, 2ff and Cope's notes)): ,,,,,,; ,; (22:1); ,,(11),13,30,33f; (7:17); ,(12); ,;,; ; ; ; ,; ; ,; ; with a genitive of the person or thing to which the contents of the parable refer (Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 1 a.):
tou'
speivronto", ;
tw'n
zizanivwn, ;
thvn
basileivan
tou'
Qeou'
ejn
parabolhv
tiqevnai (literally, to set forth the kingdom of God in a parable), to illustrate (the nature and history of) the kingdom of God by the use of a parable, L text T Tr text WH.3. "a pithy and instructive saying, involving some likeness or comparison and having preceptive or admonitory force; an aphorism, a maxim": ; ; (; ; (27); (25), etc.). Since sayings of this kind often pass into proverbs,
parabolhv is4. a proverb: (; f; f).5. an act by which one exposes himself or his possessions to danger, a venture, risk (in which sense the plural seems to be used by Plutarch, Aratus 22:
diav
pollw'n
eJligmwn
kaiv
parabolw'n
perainonte"
prov"
tov
tei'co" (cf. Diodorus Siculus fragment book , ; also variant in Thucydides 1, 131, 2 (and Poppo at the passage)));
ejn
parabolhv, in risking him, i. e. at the very moment when he exposed his son to mortal peril (see
paraboleuvomai), (Hesychius
ejk
parabolh'".
ejk
parakinduneumato"); others with less probability explain it, in a figure, i. e. as a figure, either of the future general resurrection of all men, or of Christ offered up to God and raised ag