παροιμία, -ας, ἡ (πάροιμος, by the way), [in LXX. Pr title Pro.1:1 25:1, (מָשַׁל) subscr., Sir.6:35 8:8 18:29 39:3 47:17 * ;] 1. a wayside saying (Hesych.; see LS, see word), a byword, maxim, proverb: 2Pe.2:22. 2. In NT, of figurative discourse (as מָשַׁל, Isa.14:4, al.), a parable, allegory: Jhn.10:6 16:25, 29 (see Abbott, Essays, 82 ff.).† SYN.: παραβολή, q.v (AS)
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G3942 — παροιμία
paroimia · proverb · Greek
4 tagged verse occurrences
John 10:6 · παροιμίανThis similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;John 16:25 · παροιμίαις · παροιμίαις‘These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.John 16:29 · παροιμίανHis disciples say to him, ‘Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;2 Peter 2:22 · παροιμίας·and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; ‘A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,’ and, ‘A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.’