Word

παράλιος

parálios · G3882 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. coastal region

    A territory bordering on the sea, in contrast with an inland area (compare ἀνωτερικός (anōterikós, G510))

    Examples

    Luke 6:17 And then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

How it’s used

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Near synonyms 1 word
παραθαλάσσιος parathalássios · G3864 · by the seaside, by the lake
Greek adjective meaning 'by the sea' or 'maritime,' nearly synonymous with παράλιος in denoting coastal regions (attested in Matthew 4:13)
In the other Testament 1 word
חוֹף chôwph · H2348 · seacoast, people living at the seacoast
Hebrew noun denoting the coastal region or seashore, a direct translation equivalent for the maritime/coastal sense of παράλιος
Semantic domains 1 entry
Coastal region1.61
παράλιος describes a region bordering the sea, as Luke lists the regions from which crowds came to hear Jesus: “and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.” (Luke 6:17)
Word family 10 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παράλιον, also of three term. (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (παρά and ἅλς), by the sea,…
παράλιον, also of three term. (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1) (παρά and ἅλς), by the sea, maritime: ἡ παράλιος, namely, χώρα, the sea-coast, Lk 6:17 (Polybius 3, 39, 3; Diodorus 3, 15, 41; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 12; the Sept. Deut 33:19; and the feminine form ἡ παραλία in Deut 1:7; Josh 9:1; Judith 1:7 Judith 3:6 Judith 5:2, 23 Judith 7:8; 1 Macc. 11:8 1 Macc. 15:38; Herodotus 7, 185; often in Polybius; Josephus, Antiquities 12, 7, 1).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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