Parábasis — G3847

Definition

feminine noun

violation

1. Vulg.praevaricario, and once transgressio
2. (A. V. transgression)
3. absolutely, the breach of a definite, promulgated, tariffed law
4. used of the transgression of the Mosaic law

Usually translated as

transgression, breaking

Origin

from G3845

• parabaínō (G3845)

Occurrences

Parábasis occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (3), Galatians (1), 1 Timothy (1), Hebrews (2)

• Romans 2:23 — Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking (παραβάσεως) the law dishonourest thou God?
• Romans 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression (παράβασις).
• Romans 5:14 — Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression (παραβάσεως), who is the figure of him that was to come.
• Galatians 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions (παραβάσεων), till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
• 1 Timothy 2:14 — And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression (παραβάσει).
• Hebrews 2:2 — For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression (παράβασις) and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
• Hebrews 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions (παραβάσεων) that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.