Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
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Parable
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John 10:6
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
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16 occurrences in 16 verses.
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παραβολή
parabolḗ · par-ab-ol-ay'
31 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage
Strong's KJV usage: :--comparison, figure, parable, proverb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 13:18Strong's last: Luke 21:29
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mâshâl · maw-shawl'
17 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
Strong's KJV usage: byword, like, parable, proverb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 23:7Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:6
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paroimía · par-oy-mee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration
Strong's KJV usage: :--parable, proverb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 10:6Strong's last: John 10:6
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Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
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Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
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Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
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Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
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Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
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Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
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parable
PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabilis.] Easily procured. [Not used.]
PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabola; Gr. to throw forward or against, to compare to or against; as in confero, collatum, to set together, or one thing with another.] A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction; such as the parable of the trees choosing a king, Judges 9:1; the parable of the poor man and his lamb. 2 Samuel 12:1; the parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1.
PAR'ABLE, verb transitive To represent by fiction or fable.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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