παρέχω

παρέχω — paréchō

παρέχω; imperfect παρεῖχον, 3 person plural παρειχαν (Act 28:2 L T Tr WH; see ἔχω, at the beginning, and ἀπέρχομαι, at the beginning); future 3 person singular παρέξει (Luk 7:4 R G; see below); 2 aorist 3 person plural παρέσχον, participle παρασχών; middle (present παρέχομαι); imperfect παρειχομην; future 2 person singular παρέξῃ (Luk 7:4 L T Tr WH); from Homer down; Plautuspraehibeo i. e.praebeo (Latinprae from the Greek παραί (but see Curtius, §§ 346, 380 (cf. παρά IV. 1 at the end))); i. e.

a. to reach forth, offer: τί τίνι, Luk 6:29.

b. to show, afford, supply: τίνι ἡσυχίαν, Act 22:2; φιλανθρωπίαν, Act 28:2; πάντα, 1Ti 6:17.

c. to be the author of, or to cause one to have; to give, bring, cause, one something — either unfavorable: κόπους, Mat 26:10; Mar 14:6; Luk 11:7; Luk 18:5; Gal 6:17 (παρέχειν πόνον, Sir 29:4; ἀγῶνα, Isa 7:13; πράγματα, very often from Herodotus down; also ὄχλον, see Passow, under the word ὄχλος, 3; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II.)); — or favorable: ἐργασίαν, Act 16:16, and Lachmann in; πίστιν (A. V. to give assurance), Act 17:31, on which phrase cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexic. N. T., pp. 37-39; equivalent to to occasion (ζητήσεις, see οἰκονομία), 1Ti 1:4. Middle,

1. to offer, show, or present oneself: with ἑαυτόν added (Winers Grammar, § 38, 6; (Buttmann, § 135, 6)), with an accusative of the predicate, τύπον, a pattern, Tit 2:7; παράδειγμα... τοιονδε, ἑαυτόν παρείχετο, Xenophon, Cyril 8, 1, 39; (Josephus, contra Apion 2, 15, 4); in the act., Plutarch, puer. educ. c. 20 at the beginning.

2. to exhibit or offer on one's own part: τό δίκαιον τοῖς δούλοις, Col 4:1; to render or afford from one's own resources or by one's own power: τίνι τί, Luk 7:4 (where if we read, with Rec., παρέξει, it must be taken as the 3rd person singular of the future active (in opposed to Winer's Grammar, § 13, 2 a.), the elders being introduced as talking among themselves; but undoubtedly the reading παρέξῃ should be restored (see above at the beginning), and the elders are addressing Jesus; cf. Meyer at the passage; (and on the construction, cf. Buttmann, § 139, 32)). On the middle of this verb, cf. Krüger, § 52, 8, 2; Winers Grammar, § 38, 5 end; (Ellicott and Lightfoot on Col. as above).