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
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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.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 9 times (38%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 6 times (25%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 6 times (25%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 24 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3952 appears — 24 distinct verses across 9 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 4 verses
- Matthew 24:3 παρουσίας n gen sg fem As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
- 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.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 7:6 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- 2 Corinthians 7:7 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
- 2 Corinthians 10:10 παρουσία n nom sg fem For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
Philippians 2 verses
- Philippians 1:26 παρουσίας n gen sg fem that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
- Philippians 2:12 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
1 Thessalonians 4 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 2:19 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15 παρουσίαν n acc sg fem For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 παρουσίᾳ n dat sg fem May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 2:1 παρουσίας n gen sg fem Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8 παρουσίας n gen sg fem Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nothing by the brightness of his coming;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9 παρουσία n nom sg fem even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
James 2 verses
- James 5:7 παρουσίας n gen sg fem Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
- James 5:8 παρουσία n nom sg fem You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
2 Peter 3 verses
- 2 Peter 1:16 παρουσίαν n acc sg fem For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
- 2 Peter 3:4 παρουσίας n gen sg fem and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
- 2 Peter 3:12 παρουσίαν n acc sg fem looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
1 John 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 |
