What is Paroimia?

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{3942} paroimia , paroimiav , hJ ( para by, aside from (cf. para , IV.2), and oimov way), properly, "a saying out of the usual course" or "deviating from the usual manner of speaking" (cf. Suidas 654, 15; but Hesychius under the word, et al., "a saying heard by the wayside" ( para ,
IV. 1), i.e. a "current or trite saying, proverb"; cf. Curtius, sec. 611; Stephanus" Thesaurus, under the word), hence,

1. "a clever and sententious saying, a proverb" (Aeschylus Ag. 264; Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, others; examples from Philo are given by Hilgenfeld, Die Evangelien, p. 292f (as de ebriet. sec. 20; de Abr. sec. 40; de vit. Moys. i. sec. 28; ii. sec. 5; de exsecrat. sec. 6); for lv]m; in Proverbs 1:1; 25:1 the Alexandrian LXX manuscript; Sir. 6:35, etc.): to thv paroimiav , "what is in the proverb" (Lucian, dial. mort. 6, 2; 8, 1), 2 Peter 2:22.
2. "any dark saying which shadows forth some didactic truth, especially a symbolic or figurative saying": paroimian legein , John 16:29; en paroimiaiv lalein , ibid. 25; "speech or discourse in which a thing is illustrated by the use of similes and comparisons; an allegory, i.e. extended and elaborate metaphor": John 10:6.*

 

 

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