Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /paraβolí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paravolí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paɾavolí/

Noun

παραβολή • ‎(parabolḗ) f ‎(genitive παραβολῆς); first declension

1. a placing of two things side by side, juxtaposition
2. comparison, illustration, analogy
3. parable, proverb
4. side by side meeting or engagement, broadside
5. venture
6. (astronomy) conjunction
7. (mathematics) division
8. (geometry) parabola

Inflection

Descendants

References

• παραβολή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παραβολή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «παραβολή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3850”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • comparison idem, page 150.

Greek

Noun

παραβολή • ‎(paravolí) f ‎(plural παραβολές)

1. (mathematics, geometry) parabola
2. (literature, religion) parable
3. comparison

Declension