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Strong's #3929 - πάρεσις
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πάρεσις, εως, ἡ,
letting go, dismissal, τινὸς ἐκ Συρακουσῶν Plu. Comp. Dion. Brut. 2; release, D.H. 7.37.
II slackening of strength, paralysis, Hp. Epid. 4.45; παραπληγίη π. ἁφῆς καὶ κινήσιος Aret. SD 1.7, cf. 2.5, Plu. 2.652e.
2. metaph., ἡ ἀπὸ τῆς ὕλης π. Dam. Pr. 440.
III remission of debts, χρημάτων π. Phalar. 81.1; of sins, Romans 3:25. neglect, App. Reg. 13.
* πάρεσις , -εως , ἡ
(< παρίημι ),
1. a letting go, dismissal.
2. prætermission, passing by (of debt or sin) : Romans 3:25†
SYN.: ἄφεσις G859, q.v.
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For the literal sense ";wear,"; ";carry,"; c. acc., as in Acts 28:20 (cf. 4 Maccabees 12:3), cf. OGIS 56.67 (B.C. 238) περικειμένων τὰς ἰδίας βασιλείας (";diadems"; ) (cited by Mayser Gr. p. 34). The metaphorical usage is seen in the illiterate P Lond 1926.12 (mid. iv/A.D.), where a certain Valeria asks for Paphnutius’s prayers—μεγάλῳ γὰρ νόσῳ περίκιμε δυσπνήας δινῆς (l. περίκειμαι δυσπνοίας δεινῆς), ";for I am afflicted with a great disease in the shape of a grievous shortness of breath"; (Bell) : cf. Hebrews 5:2, and from literary sources Theocritus xxiii. 13 f. φεῦγε δ᾽ ἀπὸ χρὼς | ὕβριν τᾶς ὀργᾶς περικείμενος, Anth. Pal. xi. 38 πῖνε καὶ ἔσθιε καὶ περικεῖσο ἄνθεα.
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