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Strong's #3901 - παραῤῥυέω
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- to glide by: lest we be carried by, pass by
- lest the salvation which these things heard show us how to obtain, slip away from us
- a thing escapes me
- slips my mind
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παραῤῥυεω
From G3844 and the alternate of G4482
παραρρέω; (παρά and ῤέω); from Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato down; to flow past (παραρρέον ὕδωρ, Isaiah 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, Hebrews 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, Proverbs 3:21.
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παρα -ρρέω ,
[in LXX: Isaiah 44:4 (H2986), Proverbs 3:21*;]
to flow by, drift away, slip away: Hebrews 2:1.†
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P Ryl II. 129.13 (A.D. 30) ἤροσάν μου χόρτου δέσμας πεντακοσίας, ";they carried off five hundred bundles of my hay.";
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