παρατίθημι
to place beside
‘to place 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 Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 12 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (21%)
- Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 3 times (16%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (5%)
+4 more forms (4 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 19 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3908 appears — 18 distinct verses across 8 books. 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.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 13:24 παρέθηκεν aor act ind 3sg He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
- Matthew 13:31 παρέθηκεν aor act ind 3sg He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 6:41 παρατιθῶσιν pres act subj 3pl He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
- Mark 8:6 παρατιθῶσιν παρέθηκαν pres act subj 3pl aor act ind 3pl He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
- Mark 8:7 παρέθηκέν aor act ind 3sg They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 9:16 παραθεῖναι aor act inf He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- Luke 10:8 παρατιθέμενα pres pass ptcp acc pl neut Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
- Luke 11:6 παραθήσω fut act ind 1sg for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,'
- Luke 12:48 παρέθεντο aor mid ind 3pl but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
- Luke 23:46 παρατίθεμαι pres mid ind 1sg Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 14:23 παρέθεντο aor mid ind 3pl When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
- Acts 16:34 παρέθηκεν aor act ind 3sg He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
- Acts 17:3 παρατιθέμενος pres mid ptcp nom sg masc explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
- Acts 20:32 παρατίθεμαι pres mid ind 1sg Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
1 Peter 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.
παρατιθημι — transliterated paratíthēmi — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to place beside.” It first appears in Matthew 13:24. The Greek New Testament uses it across 18 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Luke. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. 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 G3908 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 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 18 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 18 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 56%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%
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: Set before 4×, I commend 2×, Put he forth 2×
- American Standard Version: Set before 4×, Before 2×, Commit 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Set before 5×, I commit 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Before 4×, He set before 2×, Them 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3908 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 G3908 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G3908 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3908 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 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 place beside or near or set before
- to place down (from one's self or for one's self) with any one
Word origin
Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 14 distinct written forms G3908 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3908, 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 παρατιθημι appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 10 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 18:8 παρατίθημι
- Exodus 19:7 παρατίθημι
- Leviticus 5:23 παρατίθημι
- Deuteronomy 4:44 παρατίθημι
- 1 Samuel 9:24 παρατίθημι
- 2 Samuel 12:20 παρατίθημι
- 2 Kings 5:24 παρατίθημι
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 παρατίθημι
- Psalms 30:6 παρατίθημι
- Proverbs 23:1 παρατίθημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3908) 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.
- Genesis 18:8 παρατίθημι He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
- Genesis 24:33 παρατίθημι Food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
- Genesis 30:38 παρατίθημι He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
- Genesis 43:31 παρατίθημι He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."
- Genesis 43:32 παρατίθημι They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Exodus 19:7 παρατίθημι Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
- Exodus 21:1 παρατίθημι "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
- Leviticus 5:23 παρατίθημι
- Leviticus 6:3 παρατίθημι or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;
- Deuteronomy 4:44 παρατίθημι This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
- 1 Samuel 9:24 παρατίθημι The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
- 1 Samuel 21:7 παρατίθημι Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
- 1 Samuel 28:22 παρατίθημι Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.
- 2 Samuel 12:20 παρατίθημι Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
- 2 Kings 5:24 παρατίθημι When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
- 2 Kings 6:22 παρατίθημι He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
- 2 Kings 6:23 παρατίθημι He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 παρατίθημι Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
- Psalms 30:6 παρατίθημι As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
- Proverbs 23:1 παρατίθημι When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before you;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3908) 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.
