παραπικραίνω
to provoke
‘to provoke’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3893 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, παραπικραινω (parapikraínō) means “to provoke.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Hebrews 3:16. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3893 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Did provoke 1×
- American Standard Version: Did provoke 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rebelled 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Him 1×, Provoked 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3893 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3893 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3893 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3893 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to provoke, exasperate
- to rouse to indignation
Word origin
Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3893, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- παραβαινω parabaínō G3845 to neglect
- παραβαλλω parabállō G3846 to place beside
- παραβιαζομαι parabiázomai G3849 to compel
- παραβουλευομαι parabouleúomai G3851 to consult wrongly
- παραγγελλω parangéllō G3853 to announce
- παραγινομαι paragínomai G3854 to appear
- παραγω parágō G3855 to pass by
- παραδειγματιζω paradeigmatízō G3856 to make example
- παραδεχομαι paradéchomai G3858 to receive
- παραδιατριβη paradiatribḗ G3859 empty business
- παραδιδωμι paradídōmi G3860 to deliver
- παραδοξος parádoxos G3861 strange
- παραζηλοω parazēlóō G3863 to provoke
- παραθαλασσιος parathalássios G3864 by the sea
- παραθεωρεω paratheōréō G3865 to compare
- παραινεω parainéō G3867 to exhort
- παραιτεομαι paraitéomai G3868 to beg pardon
- παρακαθιζω parakathízō G3869 to sit beside
- παρακαλεω parakaléō G3870 to call beside
- παρακαλυπτω parakalýptō G3871 to cover up
- παρακαταθηκη parakatathḗkē G3872 deposit
- παρακειμαι parákeimai G3873 to lie beside
- παρακολουθεω parakolouthéō G3877 to follow after
- παρακουω parakoúō G3878 to disobey
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 79 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παραπικραινω appears 42 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 39 verses in 7 books.
- 42
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 39
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 31:27 παραπικραίνω
- 1 Kings 13:21 παραπικραίνω
- Psalms 5:11 παραπικραίνω
- Jeremiah 39:29 παραπικραίνω
- Lamentations 1:18 παραπικραίνω
- Ezekiel 2:3 παραπικραίνω
- Hosea 10:5 παραπικραίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3893) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 παραπικραίνω For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
- 1 Kings 13:21 παραπικραίνω and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
- 1 Kings 13:26 παραπικραίνω When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
- Psalms 5:11 παραπικραίνω But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
- Psalms 65:7 παραπικραίνω Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.
- Psalms 67:7 παραπικραίνω God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
- Psalms 77:8 παραπικραίνω Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- Psalms 77:17 παραπικραίνω The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
- Psalms 77:40 παραπικραίνω
- Psalms 77:56 παραπικραίνω
- Psalms 104:28 παραπικραίνω You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
- Psalms 105:7 παραπικραίνω He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
- Psalms 105:33 παραπικραίνω He struck their vines and also their fig trees, And shattered the trees of their country.
- Psalms 105:43 παραπικραίνω He brought forth his people with joy, His chosen with singing.
- Psalms 106:11 παραπικραίνω The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- Jeremiah 39:29 παραπικραίνω
- Jeremiah 51:3 παραπικραίνω Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.
- Jeremiah 51:8 παραπικραίνω Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- Lamentations 1:18 παραπικραίνω Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 1:20 παραπικραίνω See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
- Ezekiel 2:3 παραπικραίνω He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
- Ezekiel 2:5 παραπικραίνω They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
- Ezekiel 2:6 παραπικραίνω You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 2:7 παραπικραίνω You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
- Ezekiel 2:8 παραπικραίνω But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.
- Ezekiel 3:9 παραπικραίνω As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 3:26 παραπικραίνω and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 3:27 παραπικραίνω But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:2 παραπικραίνω Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:3 παραπικραίνω Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Ezekiel 12:9 παραπικραίνω Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?
- Ezekiel 12:25 παραπικραίνω For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 12:27 παραπικραίνω Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
- Ezekiel 17:12 παραπικραίνω Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought them to him to Babylon:
- Ezekiel 20:21 παραπικραίνω But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 24:3 παραπικραίνω Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
- Ezekiel 24:14 παραπικραίνω I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 44:6 παραπικραίνω You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
- Hosea 10:5 παραπικραίνω The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3893) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
