Lexical Definition

‎παρέχω‎ paréchō (par-ekh'-o) to furnish occasion ^G:V
from ‎παρά‎ and ‎ἔχω‎

bring, do, give, keep, minister, offer, shew, + trouble.

• to hold near, i.e. present, afford, exhibit, furnish occasion

Abbott-Smith

παρ-έχω, [in LXX: Ps 29 (30):7* (עמד hi.), etc.;]
I. Act.,
1. to furnish, provide, supply; with ref. to incorporeal things, to afford, show, give, cause: c. acc., Ac 22:2, I Ti 1:4; c. acc. et dat., Mt 26:10, Mk 14:6, Lk 11:7 18:5, Ac 16:16 17:31 28:2, Ga 6:17, I Ti 6:17.
2. to present, offer: c. acc. et dat., Lk 6:29; c. prop. reflex. et acc. pred., to show or present oneself (v. infr., and cf. Bl., § 55, 1).
II. Mid.,
1. to supply, furnish or display of one's own part: c. acc. et dat., Lk 7:4, Ac 19:24, Col 4:1.
2. In late writers, c. prop. reflex. et acc. pred. (= act. ut supr.), to show or present oneself (Xen., FlJ, al.; cf. M, Pr., 248; Deiss., BS, 254): Tit 2:7.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

παρέχω,

future παρέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect παρέσχηκα: aorist παρέσχον, Epic dialect infinitive παρασχέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; poetry παρέσχεθον [Refs 8th c.BC+], infinitive παρασχεθεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect παρέσκεθον [Refs 7th c.BC+] ii 11; παρεχέσκετο is falsa lectio for{παρεκέσκετο} in [Refs 8th c.BC+]

__A active, hand over, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; furnish, supply, φάος πάντεσσι παρέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+] I will provide for all,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀργύριον, ποίμνια, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πληρώμαθ᾽ ἡ πόλις παρέχει the state finds men to man the ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of natural objects, yield, produce, θάλασσα π. ἰχθῦς [Refs 8th c.BC+]; [σίδηρον] παρέξει (i.e. σόλος) [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 of incorporeal things, afford, cause, φιλότητα, ἀρετήν, γέλω τε καὶ εὐφροσύνην,[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τύχην, φρίκην, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χάριν, εὔνοιαν, [Refs]; ὄχλον, πρήγματα π., [Refs 7th c.BC+]; αἴσθησιν παρέχει τινός enables one to observe a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but αἴσθησιν π., absolutely, it causes remark, is perceived, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πενία ἀνάγκῃ τὴν τόλμαν π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑφειμένου δόξαν π., ={ὑφειμένῳ ἐοικέναι}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II present or offer for a purpose,
__II.1 with infinitive, [ὄϊες] παρέχουσι.. γάλα θῆσθαι <b>__II.2</b> <b>give oneself up, submit oneself</b>, <span class='asgreek'>ἑαυτόν</span> being omitted, <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<span class='asgreek'>ἑωυτοὺς</span>] <span class='asgreek'>διαφθαρῆναι</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.17 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>πατεῖν</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρεῖχετῷ</span> <span class='asgreek'>θέλοντι</span> [<span class='asgreek'>ἑαυτόν</span>] [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1146, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 422; τοῖς ἰατροῖς παρέχουσι.. ἀποτέμνειν καὶ ἀποκάειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.54, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456b ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>τῷ</span> <span class='asgreek'>λόγῳ</span> <span class='asgreek'>ὥσπερ</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἰατρῷ</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρέχων</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἀποκρίνου</span>[<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" [prev. work] 475d, compare “Tht.” 191a; ἕτοιμός εἰμί σοι παρέχειν ἀποκρινόμενος [prev. author] “Prt.” 348a ">Refs</a>]; especially of a woman, obscene meaning, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 162, 227, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 5.4, etc. (in full, π. ἑαυτήν [prev. author] “DMar.” 13.1, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.78). ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__II.3</b> with <i>reflexive</i> <i>pronoun</i> and a predicative, <b>show, exhibit</b> oneself so and so, <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>ἐμαυτὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>ὅσιον</span> <span class='asgreek'>καὶ</span> <span class='asgreek'>δίκαιον</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.2 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>σπάνιον</span> <span class='asgreek'>σεαυτὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3d ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>σαυτὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>σοφιστὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" [prev. author] “Prt.” 312a; ἑαυτὸν π. εὐπειθῆ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.22 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>μέτριον</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἐμαυτὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.1; τοιοῦτον πολίτην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.1; π.ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἐμαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.46; δέμασἀ κέντητον παρέχων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.21. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__III</b> <b>allow, grant</b>, <span class='asgreek'>σιγὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρασχὼν</span> <span class='asgreek'>κλῦθί</span> <span class='asgreek'>μου</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1115: with ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]<i>infinitive</i>, <span class='asgreek'>ἐπεὶ</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρέσχες</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἀντιφωνῆσαι</span> <b>did'st allow</b> me to..,[<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" [prev. work] 1114; π. αὐτοὺς δικαστὰς.. γίγνεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.37: _absolutely_ in imperative, πάρεχε">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>make way</b>, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 308, “Cyc.” 203, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1326, “Av.” 1720 (all Lyric poetry); πάρεχ᾽ ἐκποδών [prev. author] “V.” 949. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__III.2</b> <i>impersonal</i>, <span class='asgreek'>παρέχει</span> <span class='asgreek'>τινί</span> with <i>infinitive</i>, <b>it is allowed, in one's power</b> to do so and so, <span class='asgreek'>παρεῖχε</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἄν</span> <span class='asgreek'>σφι</span> <span class='asgreek'>εὐδαιμονέειν</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.170, compare 3.73, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).76; ὑμῖν οὐ παρασχήσει ἀμύνασθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.86; σωφρονεῖν παρεῖχέ σοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1080: _neuter_ ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]<i>participle</i> used <i>absolutely</i>, <span class='asgreek'>παρέχον</span> <b>it being in one's power, since one can</b>, like{<span class='asgreek'>ἐξόν</span>, <span class='asgreek'>παρόν</span>, <span class='asgreek'>παρέχον</span> [<span class='asgreek'>ὑμῖν</span>] <span class='asgreek'>ἄρχειν</span>} [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; also <span class='asgreek'>εὖ</span>, <span class='asgreek'>καλῶς</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρασχόν</span>, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 5.14; κάλλιον π. [prev. work] 60. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__IV</b> <b>produce</b> a person <b>on demand</b>, <span class='asgreek'>ἐς</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὸ</span> <span class='asgreek'>κοινόν</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.4.38 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>εἰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>βουλήν</span>, <span class='asgreek'>εἰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἀγοράν</span> (to be read <span class='asgreek'>αὔριον</span>), <span class='asgreek'>εἰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>κρίσιν</span>, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.23, 23.9, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.117, compare “PHib.” 1.168 (3rd c.BC), etc. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__V</b> with a <i>predicate</i> added, <b>make</b> so and so, <span class='asgreek'>τὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>διέξοδόν</span> <span class='asgreek'>οἱ</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἀσφαλέα</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.4; π. τινὰς βελτίους 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.136, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 274e, 277a ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]: with <i>participle</i>, <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>ξυμμάχους</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>σπονδὰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>δεχομένους</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.35, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 21.4 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>κοινὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>πόλιν</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <b>offer</b> it as a common resort, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.52 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>γῆν</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἄσυλον</span> <span class='asgreek'>καὶ</span> <span class='asgreek'>δόμους</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἐχεγγύους</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 388, etc. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B</b> <i>middle</i> <span class='asgreek'>παρέχομαι</span>, <i>future</i> <b>-<span class='asgreek'>έξομαι</span></b>[<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.20, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 23.8, etc.; also παρασχήσομαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.24, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 9.8 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]: <i>aorist 2</i> <span class='asgreek'>παρεσχόμην</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.18, 19 ">Refs 4th c.BC+</a>]: <i>perfect</i> <i>passive</i> (in <i>middle</i> sense) <span class='asgreek'>παρέσχημαι</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.11, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.49, 36.35 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]: frequently used much like <i>active</i>, without any <i>reflexive</i> sense: <b>__B.1</b> <b>supply of oneself</b> or <b>from one's own means</b>, <span class='asgreek'>νέας</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.8, 15, +others; δαπάνην οἰκηΐην [prev. author] 8.17 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>ὅπλα</span> <b>furnish</b> a suit of armour, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" “IG” 12.22.11, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.97 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>οἱ</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὰ</span> <span class='asgreek'>τιμήματα</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρεχόμενοι</span> the tax-<b>paying</b> citizens, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 39.6 ">Refs 4th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>μηδεμίαν</span> <span class='asgreek'>δύναμιν</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>εἰς</span> <span class='asgreek'>τὴν</span> <span class='asgreek'>στρατιάν</span> <b>supply</b> no contingent <b>of one's own</b> to.., [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.10; frequently with ἑαυτόν, εὔνουν καὶ πρόθυμον ἑαυτὸν παρέχεται “SIG” 333.11 (Samos, 4th-3rd c.BC), compare 620.6 (Tenos, 2nd c.BC), etc. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.2</b> of natural objects, <b>furnish, present, exhibit</b>, [<span class='asgreek'>ποταμὸς</span>] <span class='asgreek'>κροκοδείλους</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.44; π. λίμνην ὁ Πόντος.. οὐ πολλῷ τεῳ ἐλάσσω ἑωυτοῦ [prev. work] 86, compare 46, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 81d. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.3</b> of works, <span class='asgreek'>ἓν</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἔργον</span> <span class='asgreek'>πολλὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>μέγιστον</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.4</b> of incorporeal things, <b>display on one's own part</b>, <span class='asgreek'>πᾶσαν</span> <span class='asgreek'>προθυμίην</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" [prev. author] 7.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.11; πᾶν τὸ πρόθυμον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.85, compare 61; εὔνοιαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.10 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>χρείας</span> Decrees cited in [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.84. ">Refs 4th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.II</b> in Law, <span class='asgreek'>παρέχεσθαί</span> <span class='asgreek'>τινας</span> <span class='asgreek'>μάρτυρας</span>, <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>τεκμήρια</span>, <b>bring forward</b> witnesses or proofs, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19d, “Prm.” 128b, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.11, compare 5.20,22, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 23.8, etc. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. <span class='asgreek'>ἐκμαρτυρίαν</span>, <span class='asgreek'>μαρτυρίαν</span>, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator [same places] ">Refs 4th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.III</b> <b>produce as one's own</b>, <span class='asgreek'>ἄρχοντα</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρέχεσθαί</span> <span class='asgreek'>τινα</span> <b>acknowledge as one's</b> general, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.61, 62, 67 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>Ἀθηναῖοι</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἀρχαιότατον</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἔθνος</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρεχόμενοι</span> <b>presenting themselves as</b>.., [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title="[prev. work] 161 ">Refs</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>π</span>.<span class='asgreek'>πόλιν</span> <span class='asgreek'>μεγίστην</span>, of an ambassador, <b>represent</b> a city <b>in one's own person</b>, [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.64, compare 85. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.IV</b> <b>offer, promise</b>, <span class='asgreek'>ἀψευδέα</span> <span class='asgreek'>μαντή</span>ϊ<span class='asgreek'>α</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.174 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <span class='asgreek'>ἔστιν</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἃ</span> <span class='asgreek'>π</span>. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.36 ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; <b>put forward</b>, <span class='asgreek'>τὸ</span> <span class='asgreek'>εὐπρεπὲς</span> <span class='asgreek'>τῆς</span> <span class='asgreek'>δίκης</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" [prev. author] 1.39. ">Refs</a>] <b>__B.V</b> <b>render</b> so and so <b>for</b> or <b>towards oneself</b>, <span class='asgreek'>θεὸν</span> <span class='asgreek'>παρασχέσθαι</span> <span class='asgreek'>εὐμενῆ</span> [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 55; δυσμενεστέρους π. τοὺς ἀνθρώπους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 317b, compare “R.” 432a, “Lg.” 809d ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]; see above [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus V. ">Refs 4th c.BC+</a>] <b>__B.VI</b> Arith., <b>make up, amount to</b>, <span class='asgreek'>ἐνιαυτοὶ</span>.. <span class='asgreek'>παρέχονται</span> <span class='asgreek'>ἡμέρας</span>.. [<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=" 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.28. ">Refs 5th c.BC+</a>]" class="external-link">Refs 8th c.BC+