Quick Definition
a transgressor
Strong's Definition
a violator
Derivation: from G3845 (παραβαίνω);
KJV Usage: breaker, transgress(-or)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραβάτης, παραβατου, ὁ (παραβαίνω (cf. Winers Grammar, 26)), a transgressor (Vulg.praevaricator, transgressor): νόμου, a lawbreaker (Plautus legirupa), Rom_2:25; Rom_2:27; Jas_2:11; absolutely, Gal_2:18; Jas_2:9. (Aeschylus (παρβατης); Graecus Venetus, Deu_21:18; Deu_21:20.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραβάτης parabatēs 5x
transgressor, violator of law, Rom_2:25 ; Rom_2:27 ; Gal_2:18 ; Jas_2:9 ; Jas_2:11
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** παρα -βάτης , -ου , ὁ
( < παραβαίνω ),
[in Sm .: Psa_17:4 ; Psa_139:19 , Jer_6:28 * ;]
1. one who stands beside, the warrior who stands by the charioteer (of. παραβαίνω , 1).
2. a transgressor (Ζsch ., παρβάτης ): Gal_2:18 , Jas_2:9 ; Papyri νόμου , Rom_2:25 ; Rom_2:27 , Jas_2:11 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραβάτης [page 480]
The remarkable tradition preserved in Cod. Bezae after Luk_6:4 is perhaps the origin of the phrase παραβάτης νόμου in Paul and James : see Plumrner ad Lk l.c.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παραβάτης παραβάτης, ποετ. παραιβάτης, ανδ παρβάτης, ου, ὁ, [Etym: παραβαίνω I] "one who stands beside": properly "the warrior who stood beside the charioteer", Il. , Eur. , Xen. in pl. "light troops (velites) who ran beside the horsemen", Plut. （παραβαίνω II. 1) "a transgressor", Aesch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρα-βάτης, -ου, ὁ
(παραβαίνω), [in Sm.: Psa.17:4 139:19, Jer.6:28 * ;]
__1. one who stands beside, the warrior who stands by the charioteer (of. παραβαίνω, 1).
__2. a transgressor (Æsch., παρβάτης): Gal.2:18, Jas.2:9; π. νόμου, Rom.2:25, 27, Jas.2:11.†
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