παραβολ-ή (parabole)

Where it lives

Mark 13 · 11.81/10k
Matthew 17 · 9.48/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Luke 17 · 8.82/10k
Siracides 9 · 4.88/10k
Ecclesiastes 2 · 4.42/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Hebrews 2 · 3.98/10k
Ezechiel 10 · 3.46/10k
Numeri 7 · 3.03/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

παραβολ-ή · parabol-ē — LSJ

juxtaposition, comparison, juxtaposition

juxtaposition, comparison, τῶν βίων Pl. Phlb. 33b; π. καὶ σύγκρισις Plb. 1.2.2; ἐν παραβολῇ by juxtaposition, Arist. Top. 104a28, cf. 157a14; ἐκ παραβολῆς Id. Rh. 1420a4.

2 comparison, illustration, analogy, apologue

comparison, illustration, analogy, τὴν π. ἀπρεπῆ πεποιῆσθαι Isoc. 12.227; π. δὲ τὰ Σωκρατικά (distd. from λόγος, apologue) Arist. Rh. 1393b3; ἐκ τῶν θηρίων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. Id. Pol. 1264b4.

3 parable, type

NT, parable, Ev.Marc. 12.1, al.; type, Ep.Hebr. 9.9, 11.19.

4 by-word, proverb

by-word, proverb, LXX Ez. 18.2, Ev.Luc. 4.23; in bad sense, εἰς π. ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι LXX Ps. 43(44).14, cf. Wi. 5.3.

5 objection

objection to an argument, Phld. Rh. 1.5 S.

II moving side by side, broadside to broadside

moving side by side, ἐκ παραβολῆς [νεῶν] μάχεσθαι to fight a sea-fight broadside to broadside, Plb. 15.2.13, cf. D.S. 14.60.

III sidelong direction, obliquity

sidelong direction, obliquity, διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ π. Plu. Arat. 22.

IV venture

venture, D.S. 27.17, v.l. in Th. 1.131.

V conjunction

Astron., conjunction, παραβολαὶ ἀλλήλων Pl. Ti. 40c, cf. Procl. in Ti. 3.146 D., Plot. 3.1.5, Iamb. Myst. 9.4: also f.l. for περιβολή, τοῦ ἡλίου Max.Tyr. 17.9.

VI division, quotient, section produced by division

Math., division, opp. multiplication, Dioph. 4.22; quotient, ib. 10: hence, section produced by division of a line, Nicom. Ar. 2.27.

VII application, application

Geom., application, π. τῶν χωρίων Pythag. ap. Procl. in Euc. p.419 F.; τὰ ἐκ τῆς π. γενηθέντα σημεῖα, of the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola, points found by application of an area to the axis, Apollon.Perg. Con. 3.45, cf. 48.

2 parabola, applied to

parabola, because the square on the ordinate is equal to a rectangle whose height is equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter, ib. 1.11.

VIII

= παράβολον (v. παράβολος III. 1), Arist. Oec. 1348b13 (vv. ll. παράβολον, -βόλιον), OGI 41.5 (Samos, iii B. C., pl.). PPetr. 3p.232 (iii B. C., pl.).

In the wild

παραβολήν · parabolēn Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παραβολῆς · parabolēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 7
παραβολὴ · parabolē Aristotle, Metaphysics book 7 (DIORISIS sentence 1909)
παραβολήν · parabolēn Aristotle, Politics 1264b (DIORISIS sentence 465)
παραβολὴ · parabolē Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
παραβολὴ · parabolē Aristotle, Rhetoric 2

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