Parabasis means “breaking” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3847 — labash (“arm”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3847 παράβασις (parabasis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. parabasis (par-ab'-as-is) n. 1. violation [from G3845] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include transgression, transgressions, and breaking. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
parabasis (par-ab'-as-is) n. 1. violation [from G3845] KJV: breaking, transgression Root(s): G3845
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3847. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
transgression
Usage: παρά-βασις, -εως, ἡ (παραβαίνω), [in LXX: Psa.101:3 (שֵׂט), 4Ki.2:24 A, Wis.14:31, 2Ma.15:10 * ;] __1. a going aside, a deviation (Arist.). __2. In later writers, an overstepping; metaphorically, transgression (Plut., al.) : Rom.4:15 5:14, Heb.2:2 9:15; τ. νόμου, Rom.2:23; ἐν π., 1Ti.2:14; τ. παραβάσεων χάριν, Gal.3:19 SYN.: see: ἁμαρτία (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render parabasis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3847 (παράβασις) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And when he had stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge, showing them therewithal the falsehood of the heathen, and the breach of oaths.
For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: But it is the just vengeance of sinners, That punisheth always the offense of the ungodly.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3847.
I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
And when he had stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge, showing them therewithal the falsehood of the heathen, and the breach of oaths.
For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: But it is the just vengeance of sinners, That punisheth always the offense of the ungodly.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3847, grouped by book.
Parabasis (Strong's G3847) is a Greek word most simply glossed "breaking". parabasis (par-ab'-as-is) n. 1. violation [from G3845]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G3847 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3847 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as transgression, transgressions, and breaking. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3847, with linked reader references where each row is available.