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Strong's #3844: para (pronounced par-ah')

a primary preposition; properly, near; i.e. (with genitive case) from beside (literally or figuratively), (with dative case) at (or in) the vicinity of (objectively or subjectively), (with accusative case) to the proximity with (local (especially beyond or opposed to) or causal (on account of):--above, against, among, at, before, by, contrary to, X friend, from, + give (such things as they), + that (she) had, X his, in, more than, nigh unto, (out) of, past, save, side...by, in the sight of, than, (there-)fore, with. In compounds it retains the same variety of application.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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para

1) from, of at, by, besides, near

Part of Speech: preposition

Relation: a root word

Citing in TDNT: 5:727, 771




Usage:

This word is used 199 times:

Acts 3:5: "expecting to receive something of them."
Acts 4:35: "And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made"
Acts 4:37: "money, and laid it at the apostles' feet."
Acts 5:2: "a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet."
Acts 5:10: "Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost:"
Acts 7:16: "bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem."
Acts 7:58: "laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul."
Acts 9:2: "And desired of him letters to Damascus to the"
Acts 9:14: "here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all"
Acts 9:43: "days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner."
Acts 10:6: "He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house"
Acts 10:6: "whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee"
Acts 10:22: "and to hear words of thee."
Acts 10:32: "the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak"
Acts 16:13: "out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont"
Acts 17:9: "And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other,"
Acts 18:3: "of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for"
Acts 18:13: "men to worship God contrary to the law."
Acts 18:20: "him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;"
Acts 20:24: "and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord"
Acts 21:7: "the brethren, and abode with them one day."
Acts 21:8: "one of the seven; and abode with him."
Acts 21:16: "of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge."
Acts 22:3: "in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught"
Acts 22:5: "and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received"
Acts 22:30: "certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him"
Acts 24:8: "unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge"
Acts 26:8: "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise"
Acts 26:10: "in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they"
Acts 26:12: "with authority and commission from the chief priests,"
Acts 26:22: "Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this"
Acts 28:22: "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for"
Romans 1:25: "served the creature more than the Creator, who is"
Romans 1:26: "did change the natural use into that which is against nature:"
Romans 2:11: "there is no respect of persons with God."
Romans 2:13: "of the law are just before God, but the doers"
Romans 4:18: "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become"
Romans 9:14: "then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid."
Romans 11:24: "nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much"
Romans 11:25: "lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in"
Romans 11:27: "For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away"
Romans 12:3: "among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;"
Romans 12:16: "to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits."
Romans 14:5: "One man esteemeth one day above another: another"
Romans 16:17: "divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye"
1 Corinthians 3:11: "can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus"
1 Corinthians 3:19: "world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh"
1 Corinthians 7:24: "wherein he is called, therein abide with God."
1 Corinthians 12:15: "body; is it therefore not of the"
1 Corinthians 12:16: "body; is it therefore not of the"









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