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Strong's G3900 παράπτωμα (paraptoma)

Paraptoma means “fall” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3900 — lechem (“feast”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3900
Language Greek
Linked Usages 38
Books 14

Strong's G3900 Quick Answer

Strong's G3900 παράπτωμα (paraptoma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paraptoma (par-ap'-to-mah) n. 1. a side-slip (lapse or deviation) 2. (unintentional) error It has 38 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include fall, fault, and faults. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
paraptoma (par-ap'-to-mah) n. 1. a side-slip (lapse or deviation) 2. (unintentional) error
Usage
38 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
fall, fault, and faults

Meaning and Definition

paraptoma (par-ap'-to-mah) n. 1. a side-slip (lapse or deviation) 2. (unintentional) error 3. (willful) transgression [from G3895] KJV: fall, fault, offence, sin, trespass Root(s): G3895

Original Word
παράπτωμα
Transliteration
paraptoma
Derivation
Root: παραπίπτω R1: 3895
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3900. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

trespass

Usage: παρά-πτωρμα, -τος, τό (παραπίπτω), [in LXX for מַעַל, פֶּשַׁע, etc. ;] __1. a false step, a blunder (Polyb.). __2. Ethically, a misdeed, trespass (LXX): Mat.6:14-15, Mrk.11:25-26, Rom.4:25 5:15 ff Rom.11:11-12, 2Co.5:19, Gal.6:1, Eph.1:7 2:1, 5, Col.2:13.† SYN.: see: ἁμαρτία (AS)

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How Strong's G3900 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paraptoma, 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.

fall Romans 11:11 fault Galatians 6:1 faults James 5:16

How Strong's G3900 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 20 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3900 (παράπτωμα) appears 19 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3900 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3900 in the New Testament

20 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 6:14 KJV

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

Matthew 6:15 KJV

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 18:35 KJV

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Strong's G3900 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Job 35:15 Septuagint / Brenton

For he is not now regarding his wrath, Nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

Job 36:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And he shall recount to them their works, And their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

Psalms 18:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Who will understand his transgressions? Purge thou me from my secret sins.

Strong's G3900 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Wisdom of Solomon 3:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, Which hath not known the sinful bed: She shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.

Wisdom of Solomon 10:1 Septuagint / Brenton

She preserved the first formed father of the world, That was created alone, And brought him out of his fall,

Usage Excerpts

First 38 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3900.

Job 35:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he is not now regarding his wrath, Nor has he noticed severely any trespass.
Job 36:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall recount to them their works, And their transgressions, for such will act with violence.
Psalms 18:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who will understand his transgressions? Purge thou me from my secret sins.
Psalms 21:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O God, my God, attend to me: why hast thou forsaken me? The account of my transgressions is far from my salvation.
Ezekiel 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because thou didst not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
Ezekiel 14:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast.
Ezekiel 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.
Ezekiel 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel 18:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass which he has committed, he shall even die in it.
Ezekiel 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord: Hitherto have your fathers provoked me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against me.
Daniel 4:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, O king, let my counsel please thee, and atone for thy sins by alms, and thine iniquities by compassion on the poor: it may be God will be long-suffering to thy trespasses.
Daniel 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.
Daniel 6:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My God has sent his angel, and stopped the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before him; and moreover before thee, O king, I have committed no trespass.
Zechariah 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ashkelon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for she is ashamed at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Matthew 6:14 New Testament, KJV
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Matthew 6:15 New Testament, KJV
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 18:35 New Testament, KJV
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Mark 11:25 New Testament, KJV
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 New Testament, KJV
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Romans 4:25 New Testament, KJV
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Romans 5:15 New Testament, KJV
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans 5:16 New Testament, KJV
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Romans 5:17 New Testament, KJV
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Romans 5:18 New Testament, KJV
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Romans 5:20 New Testament, KJV
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Romans 11:11 New Testament, KJV
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:12 New Testament, KJV
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
2 Corinthians 5:19 New Testament, KJV
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Galatians 6:1 New Testament, KJV
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Ephesians 1:7 New Testament, KJV
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Ephesians 2:1 New Testament, KJV
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Ephesians 2:5 New Testament, KJV
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Colossians 2:13 New Testament, KJV
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
James 5:16 New Testament, KJV
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Wisdom of Solomon 3:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, Which hath not known the sinful bed: She shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.
Wisdom of Solomon 10:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
She preserved the first formed father of the world, That was created alone, And brought him out of his fall,

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3900, grouped by book.

Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 8 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 3 usages, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3900 FAQ

What does paraptoma (παράπτωμα) mean?

Paraptoma (Strong's G3900) is a Greek word most simply glossed "fall". paraptoma (par-ap'-to-mah) n. 1. a side-slip (lapse or deviation) 2. (unintentional) error

How many times is paraptoma (παράπτωμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 38 linked usages for Strong's G3900 across 14 books.

Where can I study paraptoma (παράπτωμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3900 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate paraptoma (παράπτωμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fall, fault, and faults. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3900 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3900, with linked reader references where each row is available.