Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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Parables
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Luke 8:10
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
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παραβολή
parabolḗ · par-ab-ol-ay'
15 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 13:3Strong's last: Luke 8:10
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mâshâl · maw-shawl'
1 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.
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 20:49Strong's last: Ezekiel 20:49
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And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
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And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
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Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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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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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
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And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
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And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
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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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