παραλύω
paraluō
“to paralyze”
Definition
to loosen beside, i.e. relax (perfect passive participle, paralyzed or enfeebled)
from G3844 (παρά) and G3089 (λύω);
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logos (G3056)
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Occurrences
παραλύω appears 5 times in the New Testament.
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Key Passages
With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
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