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παριστημι

to present

‘to present’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G3936 Strong's Greek
parístēmi Transliteration
/par-is'-tay-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 41 appearances

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About this entry

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“to present” is the headline sense of the Greek verb παριστημι (parístēmi). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 26:53. It appears 39 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
assist
Modern gloss
to present
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3936 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 →

39
distinct verses
The word appears in 39 distinct verses.
11 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 26:53
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 26:53.
2 Timothy 4:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Timothy 4:17.
#364
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 364 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 39 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 12 · 31%
  • Acts 13 · 33%
  • Pauline Epistles 14 · 36%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 39 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 16 verses · 41%
  • Pauline corpus 14 verses · 36%
  • Gospels 12 verses · 31%
  • Johannine 2 verses · 5%

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: Stood by 9×, Present 2×, Presented 2×
  • American Standard Version: Stood by 8×, Present 7×, Stood 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Present 8×, Standing nearby 6×, Offer 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Present 7×, Standing by 4×, Having stood by 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3936 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Stood by” 9×
  • “Present” 2×
  • “Presented” 2×
  • “Stood” 2×
  • “They that stood by” 2×
  • “Yield” 2×

Plus 24 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 G3936 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Stood by” 8×
  • “Present” 7×
  • “Stood” 3×
  • “Stand” 2×
  • “Standing by” 2×

Plus 19 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 G3936 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Present” 8×
  • “Standing nearby” 6×
  • “Offer” 2×
  • “Presented” 2×
  • “Stood beside” 2×

Plus 21 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 G3936 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Present” 7×
  • “Standing by” 4×
  • “Having stood by” 2×
  • “He presented” 2×
  • “Standing around” 2×
  • “Stood by” 2×

Plus 31 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 3 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.

  1. to set at hand
  2. to present (show) by argument, to prove
  3. to stand beside, stand by or near, to be at hand, be present

Word origin

Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 18:57,8

From G3488 and G2476 ; to stand beside that is (transitively) to exhibit proffer (specifically) recommend (figuratively) substantiate ; or (intransitively) to be at hand (or ready ) aid : - assist bring before command commend give presently present prove provide shew stand (before by here up with) yield.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 21 distinct written forms G3936 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
παραστῆσαι parastē̂sai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Luke 2:22 7
παρέστησαν paréstēsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 4:26 3
παραστήσει parastḗsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 26:53 3
παρεστηκὼς parestēkṑs Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 15:39 3
παρεστῶσιν parestō̂sin Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Mark 14:69 3
παριστάνετε paristánete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Romans 6:16 2
παρέστη paréstē Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 27:23 2
παρέστηκεν paréstēken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 4:29 2
παρέστησεν paréstēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 1:3 2
παραστήσατε parastḗsate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Romans 6:13 2
παρεστῶτες parestō̂tes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 14:70 2
παραστήσωμεν parastḗsōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Colossians 1:28 1
παραστήσῃ parastḗsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Ephesians 5:27 1
παραστησόμεθα parastēsómetha Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Romans 14:10 1
παραστῆναι parastē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 27:24 1
παραστῆτε parastē̂te Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Romans 16:2 1
παρειστήκεισαν pareistḗkeisan Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 1:10 1
παρεστήσατε parestḗsate Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Romans 6:19 1
παρεστηκότων parestēkótōn Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Mark 14:47 1
παρεστώτων parestṓtōn Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Mark 15:35 1
παρεστῶτα parestō̂ta Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine John 19:26 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3936, 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

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Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word παριστημι appears 70 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 66 verses in 19 books.

70
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
66
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3936) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 66. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3936) 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.

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