For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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παρά
Vocabulary form:
parav
Definition:
gen: from;
dat: beside, in the presence of;
acc: alongside of
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
194
GK:
4123
Cognates:
A paragraph (paravgrafoV) was originally a line in the margin beside the writing that marked a division.
Mnemonics:
Joy comes from the Paraclete.
I want to be in the presence of the Paraclete.
The Paraclete comes alongside of us.
Mnemonic Singing:
Angels from the realms of glory,
wing your flight o'er all the earth.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 11:16 | Others, to test him, kept demanding from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him a sign from heaven. |
| Luke 11:37 | When Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to have a meal with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) him, so he went in and reclined at table. |
| Luke 12:48 | But the one who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few blows. Everyone to whom much was given, much will be required from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him, and to whom much was handed over, they will ask more of him. |
| Luke 13:2 | In response he said to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than (para | παρά | prep-acc) all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things? |
| Luke 13:4 | Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them — do you think that they were worse offenders than (para | παρά | prep-acc) all the others living in Jerusalem? |
| Luke 17:16 | and fell on his face at (para | παρά | prep-acc) Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks — and he was a Samaritan. |
| Luke 18:14 | I tell you, this man went down to his house upright in the sight of God, rather (par | παρ᾿ | prep-acc) than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” |
| Luke 18:27 | Jesus said, “What is impossible for (para | παρά | prep-dat) mortal beings is possible for (para | παρά | prep-dat) God.” |
| Luke 18:35 | As Jesus drew near to Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by (para | παρά | prep-acc) the roadside, asking for alms. |
| Luke 19:7 | And everyone, when they saw this, began to grumble, “He went in to lodge with (para | παρά | prep-dat) a sinful man.” |
| John 1:6 | There came on the scene a man sent from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God, whose name was John. |
| John 1:14 | And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we gazed on his glory, glory as of the only Son from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the Father, full of grace and truth. |
| John 1:39 | He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. |
| John 1:40 | Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard John and followed Jesus. |
| John 4:9 | The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, are asking for a drink from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) me, a woman from Samaria?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.) |
| John 4:40 | When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) them. He stayed there for two days. |
| John 4:52 | So he asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” |
| John 5:34 | (Not that I accept such (para | παρά | prep-gen) human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.) |
| John 5:41 | I do not accept praise from (para | παρά | prep-gen) people, |
| John 5:44 | How can you believe, when you accept praise from (para | παρά | prep-gen) one another but do not seek the praise that comes from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the only God? |
| John 6:45 | It stands written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from (para | παρά | prep-gen) him comes to me. |
| John 6:46 | Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God; he has seen the Father. |
| John 7:29 | but I know him, because I am from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him and he it is who sent me.” |
| John 7:51 | “Surely our law does not judge a man unless it first hears from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him and finds out what he is doing, does it?” |
| John 8:26 | I have many things to say about you by way of judgment; but the one who sent me is truthful, and I say to the world only that which I have heard from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him.” |
| John 8:38 | I speak about the things I have seen while with (para | παρά | prep-dat) my Father, but you do that which you have heard from (para | παρά | prep-gen) your father.” |
| John 8:40 | But now you are intent on killing me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God. This is not what Abraham did! |
| John 9:16 | Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God because he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform miraculous signs like this?” And there was a division among them. |
| John 9:33 | If this man were not from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God, he could do nothing.” |
| John 10:18 | No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it back again. This command I received from (para | παρά | prep-gen) my Father.” |
| John 14:17 | the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you will know him, for he will dwell with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) you and will be in you. |
| John 14:23 | Jesus answered him, saying, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling place with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) him. |
| John 14:25 | “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with (par | παρ᾿ | prep-dat) you. |
| John 15:15 | No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from (para | παρά | prep-gen) my Father I have made known to you. |
| John 15:26 | “But when the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes forth from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the Father, he will bear witness about me. |
| John 16:27 | for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came forth from (para | παρά | prep-gen) God. |
| John 16:28 | I came forth from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the Father and have entered into the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” |
| John 17:5 | and now, Father, glorify me at (para | παρά | prep-dat) your side with the glory that I had with (para | παρά | prep-dat) you before the world began. |
| John 17:7 | Now they have come to know that everything that you have given me is from (para | παρά | prep-gen) you; |
| John 17:8 | for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them, and come to know in truth that I came forth from (para | παρά | prep-gen) you, and they have believed that you sent me. |
| John 19:25 | Now standing beside (para | παρά | prep-dat) Jesus’ cross were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. |
| Acts 2:33 | So then, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you are both seeing and hearing. |
| Acts 3:2 | And a man lame from the womb of his mother was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple called the “Beautiful Gate” to ask alms from (para | παρά | prep-gen) those entering into the temple. |
| Acts 3:5 | So the lame man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) them. |
| Acts 4:35 | and placed it at (para | παρά | prep-acc) the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each according as anyone had need. |
| Acts 5:2 | and kept back for himself some of the proceeds, with his wife’s knowledge, and brought only part of it and placed it at (para | παρά | prep-acc) the apostles’ feet. |
| Acts 7:16 | and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the sons of Hamor in Shechem. |
| Acts 7:58 | When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their cloaks at (para | παρά | prep-acc) the feet of a young man named Saul. |
| Acts 9:2 | and requested from (par | παρ᾿ | prep-gen) him letters to Damascus addressed to the synagogues, that if he found any who were of the Way, men or women, he should bring them bound to Jerusalem. |
| Acts 9:14 | And here he has authority from (para | παρά | prep-gen) the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name.” |
Mnemonics
Mnemonic for Para
We learn about paradise from Genesis,
The seventh day Adam was beside Eve, and in the presence of God.
Then the accuser came along side of Eve.
This is brilliant!! Thank you
This is brilliant!! Thank you for sharing!
"para" means alongside in
"para" means alongside in English words dealing with a profession.
"Paramedic" works alongside a doctor
"Paralegal" works alongside a lawyer
"paraprofessional" works alongside a teacher, etc.