παρουσία
presence
‘presence’ 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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
6 distinct verses where G3952 appears in the Nominative case, across 4 books. 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.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 24:27 παρουσία n nom sg fem For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 24:37 παρουσία n nom sg fem "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 24:39 παρουσία n nom sg fem and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
James 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.
The Greek noun παρουσια centers on the idea of “presence.” First canonically at Matthew 24:3, it enters the text early. It turns up in 24 verses across 9 books, an uncommon footprint. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 24-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3952 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #548
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 548 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 24 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 4 verses 17%
- 1 Thessalonians 4 verses 17%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 13%
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 24 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 58%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 25%
- Gospels 4 verses · 17%
- Johannine 1 verse · 4%
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: Coming 22×, Presence 2×
- American Standard Version: Coming 20×, Presence 3×, Of 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Coming 18×, Arrival 3×, Presence 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Coming 19×, Arrival 3×, Of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3952 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3952 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3952 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G3952 across 27 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.
- presence
- the coming, arrival, advent
Word origin
Derived from παρειμι (páreimi) (G3918) — to be present.
From the present participle of G3918 ; a being near that is advent (often return ; specifically of christ to punish Jerusalem or finally the wicked); (by implication) physical aspect : - coming presence.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3952 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρουσίᾳ parousía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 15:23 | 9 |
| παρουσία parousía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:27 | 6 |
| παρουσίας parousías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:3 | 6 |
| παρουσίαν parousían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Thessalonians 4:15 | 3 |
