parrhsiva parrhsiva, parrhsiva", hJ (pa'n and rJh'si"; cf. ajrrhsia silence, katarrhsi" accusation, provrrhsi" prediction);1. freedom in speaking, unreservedness in speech (Euripides, Plato, Demosthenes, others): hJ parrhsiva tivno", ; crh'sqai parrhsiva, ; parrhsiva adverbially -- freely: lalei'n, ,; ; -- openly, frankly, i. e. without concealment: ; ; -- without ambiguity or circumlocution: ei\pe hJmi'n parrhsiva (, , Meineke edition, p. 405), ; -- without the use of figures and comparisons, opposed to ejn paroimivai": , and R G in 29 (where L T Tr WH ejn parrhsiva); ejn parrhsiva, freely, ; metav parrhsiva", ; ei\pen, ; lalei'n, ,.2. free and fearless confidence, cheerful courage, boldness, assurance, (; Sap. ; Josephus, Antiquities 9, 10, 4; 15, 2, 7; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23)): (opposed to aijscuvnesqai, cf. Wiesinger at the passage); ejn pivstei, resting on, , cf. Huther at the passage; e[cein parrhsivan eij" tiv, ; pollhv moi (ejsti) parrhsiva prov" uJma'", ; of the confidence impelling one to do something, e[cein parrhsiva with an infinitive of the thing to be done, (Test xii. Patr., test. Rub. 4); of the undoubting confidence of Christians relative to their fellowship with God, ; ; ; metav parrhsiva", ; e[cein parrhsivan, opposed to aijscuvnesqai to be covered with shame, ; before the judge, ; with prov" tovn Qeovn added, ; .3. the deportment by which one becomes conspicuous or secures publicity (Philo de victim. offer. sec. 12): ejn parrhsiva, before the public, in view of all, (opposed to ejn tw'/ kruvptw); (without ejn); (where cf. Lightfoot).*