parivsthmi parivsthmi and (in later writings, and in the N. T. in , ) paristavnw; future parasthvsw; 1 aorist parevsthsa; 2 aorist parevsthn; perfect parevsthka, participle paresthkwv" and parestw"; pluperfect 3 person plural pareisthvkeisan ( (WH paristhkeisan; see i{sthmi, at the beginning)); 1 future middle parasthvsomaiv; from Homer down.1. The present, imperfect, future and 1 aorist active have a transitive sense (the Septuagint chiefly for dymi[>h,), a. to place beside or near (parav, IV. 1); to set at hand; to present; to proffer; to provide: kthvnh, (skavfh, ); tina or tiv tivni, to place a person or thing at one's disposal, ; to present a person for another to see and question, ; to present or show, tina ortiv with an accusative of the quality which the person or thing exhibits: oi|" parevsthsen eJautovn zw'nta, ; add, ,,; ; ; (te vegetum nobis in Graeeia siste, Cicero, ad Att. 10, 16, 6); tina with a predicate accusative followed by katenwvpion tivno", ; eJautovn wJ" (wJseiv) tina tivni, ; to bring, lead to, in the sense of presenting, without a dative: ; . of sacrifices or of things consecrated to God: tav swvmata uJmw'n qusivan ... tw'/ Qew'/, (so also in secular authors: Polybius 16, 25, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 4; Lucian, deor. concil. 13; Latin admoveo, Vergil Aen. 12, 171; sisto, Stat. Theb. 4, 445); tina (a firstborn) tw'/ kurivw/, ; to bring to, bring near, metaphorically, i. e. to bring into one's fellowship or intimacy: tina tw'/ Qew'/, ; namely, tw'/ Qew'/, . b. to present (show) by argument, to prove: tiv, (Epictetus diss. 2, 23, 47; followed by pw'", id. 2, 26, 4; tivni tiv, Xenophon, oec. 13, 1; tivni, o{ti, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 3, 2; de vita sua sec. 6).2. Middle and perfect, pluperfect, 2 aorist active, in an intransitive sense (the Septuagint chiefly for dm'[;, also for bX'nI), to stand beside, stand by or near, to be at hand, be present; a. universally, to stand by: tivni, to stand beside one, ; ; ; ; oJ paresthkwv", a by-stander, , (here T Tr WH parestw'sin); (here Tdf. parestwtwn, WH marginal reading eJsthkovtwn), 39; (L marginal reading Tr marginal reading parestwtwn); oJ parestw", ; (here anarthrous). b. to appear: with a predicate nominative followed by ejnwvpion tivno", (A. V. stand here); before a judge, Kaivsari, ; middle tw'/ bhvmati tou' Qeou' (R G Cristou'), . c. to be at hand, stand ready: of assailants, absolutely, (A. V. stood up) (from <<ref:BHS