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παραβολήparabolḗ
GreekG385050 occurrences (KJV)

a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage

KJV renders it: comparison, figure, parable, proverb

Where it appears(showing the first 48 of 50)

  • Matt 13:3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
  • Matt 13:10The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
  • Matt 13:13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
  • Matt 13:18“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
  • Matt 13:24He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
  • Matt 13:31He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
  • Matt 13:33He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
  • Matt 13:34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,
  • Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
  • Matt 13:36Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”
  • Matt 13:53When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
  • Matt 15:15Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
  • Matt 21:33“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
  • Matt 21:45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
  • Matt 22:1Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
  • Matt 24:32“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
  • Mark 3:23He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
  • Mark 4:2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
  • Mark 4:10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
  • Mark 4:11He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
  • Mark 4:13He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
  • Mark 4:30He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
  • Mark 4:33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
  • Mark 4:34Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
  • Mark 7:17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.
  • Mark 12:1He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
  • Mark 12:12They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
  • Mark 13:28“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
  • Luke 4:23He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”
  • Luke 5:36He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
  • Luke 6:39He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
  • Luke 8:4When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.
  • Luke 8:9Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
  • Luke 8:10He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
  • Luke 8:11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
  • Luke 12:16He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
  • Luke 12:41Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
  • Luke 13:6He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
  • Luke 14:7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
  • Luke 15:3He told them this parable.
  • Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
  • Luke 18:9He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
  • Luke 19:11As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
  • Luke 20:9He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
  • Luke 20:19The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people — for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
  • Luke 21:29He told them a parable. “See the fig tree, and all the trees.
  • Heb 9:9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
  • Heb 11:19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.