Parembolḗ — G3925

Definition

feminine noun

a throwing in beside (juxtaposition), i.e. (specially), battle-array, encampment or barracks (tower Antonia)

1. interpolation, insertion (into a discourse of matters foreign to the subject in hand, Aeschines)
2. In the Maced. dialect an encampment (Pclyb., Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch)
1. the camp of the Israelites in the desert (an enclosure within which their tents were pitched)
2. the barracks of the Roman soldiers, which at Jerusalem were in the castle Antonia
3. an army in line of battle

Usually translated as

castle, camp, army

Origin

from a compound of G3844 and G1685

• pará (G3844)
• embállō (G1685)

Occurrences

Parembolḗ occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (6), Hebrews (3), Revelation (1)

• Acts 21:34 — And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle (παρεμβολὴν).
• Acts 21:37 — And as Paul was to be led into the castle (παρεμβολὴν), he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
• Acts 22:24 — The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle (παρεμβολὴν), and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
• Acts 23:10 — And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle (παρεμβολὴν).
• Acts 23:16 — And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle (παρεμβολὴν), and told Paul.
• Acts 23:32 — On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle (παρεμβολὴν):
• Hebrews 11:34 — Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies (παρεμβολὰς) of the aliens.
• Hebrews 13:11 — For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp (παρεμβολῆς).
• Hebrews 13:13 — Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp (παρεμβολῆς), bearing his reproach.
• Revelation 20:9 — And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about (παρεμβολὴν), and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.