Original Word: παραβαίνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: parabainó
Pronunciation: pah-rah-BYE-no
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ab-ah'-ee-no)
Definition: To transgress, to go beyond, to violate
Meaning: I transgress, violate, depart, desert.

Word Origin: From παρά (para, meaning "beside" or "beyond") and βαίνω (baino, meaning "to go" or "to walk")

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The Hebrew equivalent often associated with "parabainó" is עָבַר (abar, Strong's H5674), which means to pass over, to transgress, or to go beyond.

Usage: The Greek verb "parabainó" primarily means to go beyond or to overstep a boundary. In a biblical context, it is often used to describe the act of transgressing God's law or commandments. It implies a deliberate or conscious decision to go beyond what is permitted or commanded by God, thus violating His divine will.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, laws and boundaries were essential for maintaining order in society. The concept of transgression was not only a legal issue but also a moral and religious one. For the Jewish people, the Law (Torah) was central to their covenant relationship with God. To transgress the Law was to break faith with God and the community. In the New Testament, the idea of transgression is expanded to include not only the Law of Moses but also the teachings of Jesus Christ and the apostles.

Cognate: 3845 parabaínō (from 3844 /pará, "beside, contrary to" and baínō, "go") – properly, to transgress in a willful (defiant) way, deliberately stepping over a known line, i.e. as a fully willful decision. See 3847 (parabasis).

Word Origin
from para and the same as basis
Definition
to go by the side of, to go past
NASB Translation
break (1), transgress (1), turned aside (1).

STRONGS NT 3845: παραβαίνω

παραβαίνω; 2 aorist παρέβην; properly, to go by the side of (in Homer twice παρβεβαως of one who stands by another's side in a war-chariot, Iliad 11,522; 13, 708 (but here of men on foot)); to go past or to pass over without touching a thing; tropically, to overstep, neglect, violate, transgress, with an accusative of the thing (often so in secular authors from Aeschylus down (cf. παρά, IV. 1 and 2)): τήν παράδοσιν, Matthew 15:2; τήν ἐντολήν τοῦ Θεοῦ, Matthew 15:3; ὁ παραβαίνων, he that transgresseth, oversteppeth, i. e. who does not hold to the true doctrine, opposed to μένειν ἐν τῇ διδαχή, 2 John 1:9 R G (where L T Tr WH ὁ προάγων (which see)) (so οἱ παραβαίνοντες, transgressors of the law, Sir. 40:14 (cf. Josephus, contra Apion 2, 18, 2; 29, 4; 30, 1)); (τήν διαθήκην, Joshua 7:11, 15; Ezekiel 16:59, and often; τό ῤῆμα κυρίου, Numbers 14:41; 1 Samuel 15:24, etc.; τάς συνθήκας, Polybius 7, 5, 1; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 5; Aelian v. h. 10, 2; besides, παραβ. δίκην. τόν νόμον, τούς ὅρκους, πίστιν, etc., in Greek writings). In imitation of the Hebrew סוּר followed by מִן, we find παραβαίνειν ἐκ τίνος and ἀπό τίνος, so to go past as to turn aside from, i. e. to depart, leave, be turned from: ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ, Exodus 32:8; Deuteronomy 9:12; ἀπό τῶν ἐντολῶν, Deuteronomy 17:20; ἀποπο τῶν λόγων, Deuteronomy 28:14, the Alex. manuscript; once so in the N. T.: ἐκ (L T Tr WH ἀπό) τῆς ἀποστολῆς, of one who abandons his trust (R. V. fell away], Acts 1:25. (In the Sept. also for עָבַר, הֵפִיר, to break, שָׁטָה, to deviate, turn aside.) (Synonym: παραβαίνειν to overstep, παραπορεύεσθαι to proceed by the side of, παρέρχεσθαι to go past.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

transgress.

From para and the base of basis; to go contrary to, i.e. Violate a command -- (by) transgress(-ion).

see GREEK para

see GREEK basis

Forms and Transliterations

παραβαινετε παραβαίνετε παραβαίνοντας παραβαινουσιν παραβαίνουσιν παραβαίνων παραβέβηκας παραβεβηκότων παραβή παραβήναι παραβήση παραβήτε παρεβαίνετε παρεβη παρέβη παρέβην παρέβησαν παρέβητε parabainete parabaínete parabainousin parabaínousin parebe parebē parébe parébē

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