Paralyo means “feeble” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3886 — lua (“gulp”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3886 παραλύω (paraluo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paraluo (par-al-oo'-o) v. 1. to loosen beside, i.e. relax (perfect passive participle, paralyzed or enfeebled) [from G3844 and G3089] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include sick and feeble. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paraluo (par-al-oo'-o) v. 1. to loosen beside, i.e. relax (perfect passive participle, paralyzed or enfeebled) [from G3844 and G3089] KJV: feeble, sick of the (taken with) palsy Root(s): G3844, G3089
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to paralyze
Usage: παρα-λύω [in LXX: Jer.6:24, Jer 27:43, Eze.21:7 (רָפָה), etc. ;] __1. to loose from the side, set free. __2. to weaken, enfeeble; pass., to be enfeebled, esp. by a paralytic stroke: Luk.5:18, 24, Act.8:7 9:33, Heb.12:12" (LXX) .† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paraluo, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New 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 G3886 (παραλύω) appears 22 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the Lord God said to him, Not so, anyone that slays Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.
And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be ungirded, and his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them By the hand of a woman.
And as he began to pull down, even at that time was Alcimus plagued, and his enterprises hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak anything, nor give order concerning his house.
Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3886.
And the Lord God said to him, Not so, anyone that slays Cain shall suffer sevenfold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.
And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be ungirded, and his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.
For the Lord shall judge his people, And shall be comforted over his servants; For he saw that they were utterly weakened, And failed in the hostile invasion, and were become feeble:
And David took a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all his chariot horses, and he reserved to himself a hundred chariots.
And David took of them a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand infantry: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but there were reserved of them a hundred chariots.
The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.
Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.
We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.
Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Beth-jeshimoth above the fountain of the city, by the seaside.
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.
For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them By the hand of a woman.
And as he began to pull down, even at that time was Alcimus plagued, and his enterprises hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak anything, nor give order concerning his house.
Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.
But they sleeping the same sleep that night, Which was indeed intolerable, And which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,
Whether it were a whistling wind, Or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, Or a pleasing fall of water running violently,
A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh a heavy countenance and a wounded heart: A woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.
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Paralyo (Strong's G3886) is a Greek word most simply glossed "feeble". paraluo (par-al-oo'-o) v. 1. to loosen beside, i.e. relax (perfect passive participle, paralyzed or enfeebled) [from G3844 and G3089]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G3886 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3886 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 sick and feeble. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3886, with linked reader references where each row is available.