Paratereo means “observe” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3906 — lachats (“affliction”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3906 παρατηρέω (paratereo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paratereo (par-at-ay-reh'-o) v. 1. to inspect alongside, i.e. note insidiously or scrupulously [from G3844 and G5083] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include watched and observe. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paratereo (par-at-ay-reh'-o) v. 1. to inspect alongside, i.e. note insidiously or scrupulously [from G3844 and G5083] KJV: observe, watch Root(s): G3844, G5083
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3906. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to observe
Usage: παρα-τηρέω, -ῶ [in LXX: Psa.37:12 (זָמַם), Psa.130:8 (שָׁמַר), Da TH Dan.6:11 (12), Su 1:12,15,16* ;] __1. to watch closely, observe narrowly: so mid., τ. πύλας, Act.9:24; with evil intent, Mrk.3:2, Luk.20:20 (absol., see Field, Notes, 74); so mid., Luk.6:7 14:1. __2. to observe scrupulously (of days and seasons; cf. Exo.12:42, Sm.): mid., Gal.4:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paratereo, 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 G3906 (παρατηρέω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The sinner will watch for the righteous, And gnash his teeth upon him.
If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:
And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.
So Amelsad took away their supper and the wine of their drink, and gave them pulse.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3906.
The sinner will watch for the righteous, And gnash his teeth upon him.
If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:
And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.
So Amelsad took away their supper and the wine of their drink, and gave them pulse.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3906, grouped by book.
Paratereo (Strong's G3906) is a Greek word most simply glossed "observe". paratereo (par-at-ay-reh'-o) v. 1. to inspect alongside, i.e. note insidiously or scrupulously [from G3844 and G5083]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G3906 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3906 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 watched and observe. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3906, with linked reader references where each row is available.