G3901
παραρρέω
to drift away
παρα-ρρέω [in LXX: Isa.44:4 (יָבַל), Pro.3:21 * ;] to flow by, drift away, slip away: Heb.2:1.† (AS)
The KJV translates G3901 in the following manner:
let (2x), slip (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
παραῤῥυέω — pararrhyéō
παραρρέω; (παρά and ῤέω); from Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato down; to flow past (παραρρέον ὕδωρ, Isa 44:4), to glide by: μήποτε παραρρυῶμεν (2 aorist passive subjunctive; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 287; (Veitch, under the word ῤέω; WHs Appendix, p. 170); but L T Tr WH παραρυῶμεν; see Rho), lest we be carried past, pass by (R. V. drift away from them) (missing the thing), i. e. lest the salvation which the things heard show us how to obtain slip away from us, Heb 2:1. In Greek authors παρραρει μοι τί, a thing escapes me, Sophocles Philoct. 653; tropically, slips from my mind, Plato, legg. 6, p. 781 a.; in the sense of neglect, μή παρραρυης, τήρησον δέ ἐμήν βουλήν, Pro 3:21.
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