παραπλήσιον
paraplḗsion · G3897 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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very similar, closely resembling, almost the same as
Pertaining to being similar in the sense of almost equivalent to
ExamplesPhilippians 2:27 For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- σχεδόν schedón · G4975 · almost, nearly, about
- σχεδόν is a standard adverb meaning 'nearly, almost, well-nigh' and directly overlaps with the figurative sense of παραπλήσιον ('almost'). Both express approximation or near-completion, though παραπλήσιον retains more of its root sense of spatial/conceptual 'closeness' while σχεδόν is more purely temporal or quantitative approximation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Very similar, closely resembling, almost the same as64.9
- παραπλήσιον describes something that comes very near to a state without fully reaching it, as Paul describes Epaphroditus's brush with death: “For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.” (Philippians 2:27)
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (neuter of the adjective παραπλήσιος), adverb, near to, almost to: ἠσθένησεν παραπλήσιον…
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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