Greek semantic word

παραβολή

Transliteration: parabole

4 lexical sense(s); 50 exact STEP occurrence token(s).

Lexical senses and semantic domains

Sense 1: parable, figure, allegory, figure of speech

a relatively short narrative with symbolic meaning

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003753-01
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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48 (48 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 2: archetype, figure, foreshadow, symbol

a model or example which anticipates or precedes a later realization

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003753-02
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 3: to tell a parable, to utter a parable

an idiom, literally: to place alongside a parable

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003753-03
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Source-linked references
1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 4: symbolically, allegorically, figuratively, so to speak

pertaining to expressions which are not to be understood literally, but symbolically or figuratively

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-GRK-SENSE-003753-04
Source
ubs_greek_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Source-linked references
1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
Source-exact record
View JSON

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Related words and biblical concepts

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Advanced record identity
Lemma ID
SDBC-GRK-LEMMA-003753
Page model version
1.0
Direction
ltr
Domain policy
Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
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