παράπτωμα
to fall beside
‘to fall beside’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Dative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 verses where G3900 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Ephesians. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Ephesians
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, παραπτωμα (paráptōma) means “to fall beside.” First canonically at Matthew 6:14, it enters the text early. With 17 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Romans (47% of all occurrences). Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. 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 G3900 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 →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
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 17 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 82%
- Gospels 3 verses · 18%
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: Trespasses 9×, Offence 4×, Sins 3×
- American Standard Version: Trespasses 10×, Trespass 6×, By 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Trespasses 11×, Trespass 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Trespasses 12×, Trespass 6×, Transgression 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3900 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3900 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3900 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3900 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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 fall beside or near something
- a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness
Word origin
Derived from παραπιπτω (parapíptō) (G3895) — to fall beside.
From G3895 ; a side slip ( lapse or deviation ) that is (unintentional) error or (wilful) transgression : - fall fault offence sin trespass.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G3900 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παραπτώματα paraptṓmata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 6:14 | 6 |
| παραπτώματι paraptṓmati | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 5:15 | 4 |
| παράπτωμα paráptōma | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 5:15 | 3 |
| παραπτώμασιν paraptṓmasin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Ephesians 2:1 | 3 |
| παραπτωμάτων paraptōmátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Romans 5:16 | 2 |
| παραπτώματος paraptṓmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Romans 5:18 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παραπτωμα appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 4 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 35:15 παράπτωμα
- Psalms 18:13 παράπτωμα
- Ezekiel 3:20 παράπτωμα
- Zechariah 9:5 παράπτωμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3900) 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.
- Job 35:15 παράπτωμα But now, because he has not visited in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
- Job 36:9 παράπτωμα Then he shows them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
- Psalms 18:13 παράπτωμα Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice: Hailstones and coals of fire.
- Psalms 21:2 παράπτωμα You have given him his heart's desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
- Ezekiel 3:20 παράπτωμα Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
- Ezekiel 14:11 παράπτωμα that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:13 παράπτωμα Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
- Ezekiel 15:8 παράπτωμα I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 18:22 παράπτωμα None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
- Ezekiel 18:24 παράπτωμα But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
- Ezekiel 18:26 παράπτωμα When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
- Ezekiel 20:27 παράπτωμα Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
- Zechariah 9:5 παράπτωμα Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; As will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; And the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3900) 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.
