Quick Definition
I neglect, omit, slacken
Strong's Definition
to let by, i.e. relax
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and hiemi (to send);
KJV Usage: hang down
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παρίημι: 2 aorist infinitive παρεῖναι (Luk_11:42 L T Tr WH); perfect passive participle παρειμένος; from Homer down;
1. to let pass; to pass by, neglect (very often in Greek writings from Pindar, Aeschyl, Herodotus down), to disregard, omit: τί, Luk_11:42 (R G ἀφιέναι) (ἁμαρτήματα, to pass oreo, let go unpunished, Sir_23:2; (τιμωρίαν, Lycurgus, 148, 41)).
2. to relax, loosen, let go (see παρά, IV. 2) (e. g. a bow); perfect passive participle παρειμένος, relaxed, unstrung, weakened, exhausted (Euripides, Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch, others): χεῖρες, Heb_12:12; Sir_2:13 Sir_25:23, cf. Zep_3:16; Jer_4:31; ἀργοί καί παρείμενοι ἐπί ἀργόν ἀγαθόν, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 34, 4 [ET] cf. 1. Cf. παραλύω.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παρίημι pariēmi 2x
to let pass beside, let fall beside;
to relax, Luk_11:42 ;
perf. pass. part. παρειμένος , hanging down helplessly, unstrung, feeble, Heb_12:12
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παρ -ίημι ,
[in LXX : Jer_4:31 ( H6566 pi .), etc.;]
1. to pass by or over, let alone, disregard: Luk_11:42 .
2. to relax, loosen; pass ., to be relaxed, weakened, exhausted: παρειμένας χεῖρας , Heb_12:12 ( LXX ἀνειμ -).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παρίημι [page 494]
let pass, omit ( Luk_11:42 ), cf. P Giss I. 43 .23 (ii/A.D.) μηδ [έν ]α̣ παρεικέναι ἀνα̣πόγρα (φον ), P Oxy IX. 1202 .15 (A.D. 217) παρεῖ [κε ]ν τὸν ἡμέτερον υἱόν a father s complaint that his son s name had been omitted from a list of ephebi, and Syll 326 (= .3 709) .28 (B.C. 107) οὐδένα δὲ χρόνον ἀργὸν παρείς . In P Oxy IV. 713 .26 (A.D. 97) ἐκ τῆς Θρασυμάχου παρειμένης ( sc. γῆς ), παρειμένης is a technical term applied to land, perhaps, as the editors suggest, in the sense of conceded to or abandoned : cf. now ib. XII. 1549 .14, .35 (A.D. 240), also P Hib I. 53 .5 (B.C. 246) with the editors note, and see Heb_12:12 . For the meaning admit we may cite Aristeas 173 παρειμένοι δ᾽ εἰς τὴν αὐλὴν . . . ἠσπασάμεθα τὸν βασιλέα , on being admitted to the court, we greeted the king.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παρίημι 2nd sg. παριεῖς fut. παρήσω aor1 παρῆκα 3rd pl. aor2 παρεῖσαν part. παρείς perf. παρεῖκα Pass., aor1 παρείθην inf. παρεθῆναι aor2 παρείμην perf. παρεῖμαι "to let drop beside or at the side, let fall", Soph. , Eur. :—Pass., παρείθη ποτὶ γαῖαν it "hung down" to earth, Il. "to pass by, pass over, leave out", Lat. omitto, Hdt. , Soph. "to pass unnoticed, disregard, let alone", Lat. praetermittere, Hdt. , Aesch. ; τὰ παθήματα παρεῖσ᾽ ἐάσω Soph. ; so in Pass., πόθος παρεῖτο id=Soph. ; παρεθῆναι Dem. c.inf. "to omit" to do, Plat. , etc.; and with a negat. repeated, μὴ παρῇς τὸ μὴ οὐ φράσαι Soph. of Time, "to let pass", τὸν χειμῶνα Hdt. ; τὸν καιρόν Thuc. "to relax, slacken, remit", γόον, χόλον Eur. :—Pass. "to be relaxed, weakened, exhausted", id=Eur. τοῦ ποδὸς παριέναι "to slack away" the sheet, v. πούς II. 2; so metaph., τοῦ μετρίου παρείς "letting go one's hold of" moderation, i. e. giving it up, Soph. "to remit" punishment, "to forgive, pardon", Ar. "to yield, give up", Lat. concedere, νίκην τινί Hdt. , attic: — "to leave" a thing to another, σοὶ παρεὶς τάδε Soph. ; παρῆκεν, ὥστε βραχέα μοι δεῖσθαι φράσαι "left it" so that there is need for me to say but little, id=Soph. "to permit, allow", c. dat. pers. et inf., ἄλλῳ παρήσομεν ναυμαχήσειν Hdt. ; absol., the inf. being understood, Soph. "to allow to pass, let pass, let in, admit", Hdt. , Eur. , etc.; so perf. pass. in mid. sense, βαρβάρους εἰς τὰς ἀκροπόλεις παρεῖνται "have admitted" them into "their" citadels, Dem. Mid. παρίεσθαί τινα "to obtain leave from" him, "obtain" his "consent", Soph. , Plat. "to beg to be let off" something, οὐδέν σου παρίεμαι "I ask" no "quarter", Plat. : "to beg a favour", id=Plat. ; παριέμεσθα "we ask pardon", Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρ-ίημι
[in LXX: Jer.4:31 (פָּרַשׂ pi.), etc. ;]
__1. to pass by or over, let alone, disregard: Luk.11:42.
__2. to relax, loosen; pass., to be relaxed, weakened, exhausted: παρειμένας χεῖρας, Heb.12:12 (LXX ἀνειμ-).†
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