parabasis · transgression

What it means

parabasis (παράβασις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “transgression”.

Stepping over a command, breaking it.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Overstepping a command.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• transgression ×5
• transgressions ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×3
• Galatians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2

• Romans 2:23

  You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

• Romans 4:15

  For the law brings about wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

• Romans 5:14

  Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of the one who was to come.

• Galatians 3:19

  Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

• 1 Timothy 2:14

  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been thoroughly deceived, came to be in transgression.

• Hebrews 2:2

  For if the word spoken through angels proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

• Hebrews 9:15

  And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.