Lexical Summary paresis: a letting go Original Word: πάρεσιςTransliteration: paresis Phonetic Spelling: (par'-es-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a letting go Meaning: a letting go Strong's Concordance remission. From ktetor; praetermission, i.e. Toleration -- remission. see GREEK ktetor Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3929: πάρεσιςπάρεσις, παρεσισεως, ἡ (παρίημι, which see), pretermission, passing over, letting pass, neglecting, disregarding: διά τήν πάρεσιν ... ἀνοχή τοῦ Θεοῦ, because God had patiently let pass the sins committed previously (to the expiatory death of Christ), i. e. bad tolerated, had not punished (and so man's conception of his holiness was in danger of becoming dim, if not extinct), Romans 3:25, where cf. Fritzsche; (Trench, § xxxiii. (Hippocrates, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others)). |
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