Quick Definition
inviolable, unchangeable
Strong's Definition
not passing away, i.e. untransferable (perpetual)
Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3845 (παραβαίνω);
KJV Usage: unchangeable
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπαράβατος, ἀπαράβατον (παραβαίνω), from the phrase παραβαίνειν νόμον to transgress i. e. to violate, signifying either unviolated, or not to be violated, inviolable: ἱερωσύνη unchangeable and therefore not liable to pass to a successor, Heb_7:24; cf. Bleek and Delitzsch at the passage(A later word, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 313; in Josephus, Plutarch, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπαράβατος aparabatos 1x
not transient; not to be superseded, unchangeable, Heb_7:24
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀ -παρά -βατος , -ον
( < παραβαίνω ),
inviolable , and so unchangeable: Heb_7:24 ( v. Westc ., in l ; Cremer , 653; MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπαράβατος [page 53]
In P Ryl II. 65 .18 (B.C. 67? in any case Ptol.) a judgement ends with καὶ τἄλλα τὰ δι᾽ αὐτῆ [ς δι ]ωρισμένα μένειν κύρια καὶ ἀπαράβατα , valid and inviolate (Edd.). The legal formula, thus established for an early period, survives six centuries later in P Grenf I. 60 .7 (A.D. 581) ἀπαραβάτῳ πράσει : inviolable must be the sense, though the words follow a hiatus. Another example, also vi/A.D., is in P Lond 1015 .12 (= III. p. 257) ἄτρωτα καὶ ἀσάλευτα καὶ ἀπαράβατα [ . . . , a contract for the surrender of property. See also P Catt recto v. 19 (ii/A.D.) (= Chrest. II. p. 422) ἔνια ἀπαράβατά ἐστιν , es gibt Dinge, an denen sich nichts δndern lδsst (Ed.). It is clear that the technical use, compared with the late literary ( ap. Lobeck Phryn. p. 313), constitutes a very strong case against the rendering not transferable . Phrynichus himself prescribed ἀπαραίτητος : what sense that would have made in Heb_7:24 passes comprehension. Vettius Valens has the adverb five times (see index), always as validly or inevitably. It occurs in P Strass I. 40 .23 (A.D. 569), rendered unverbrόchlich (Ed.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀπαράβατος [Etym: παραβαίνω] "not passing over to" another, "not passing away, unchangeable", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀ-παρά-βατος, -ον
(παραβαίνω),
inviolable, and so unchangeable: Heb.7:24 (see Westc., in l; Cremer, 653; MM, VGT, see word).†
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