Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3936: παριστάνωπαριστάνω, see παρίστημι. STRONGS NT 3936: παρίστημιπαρίστημι and (in later writings, and in the N. T. in Romans 6:13, 16) παριστάνω; future παραστήσω; 1 aorist παρέστησα; 2 aorist παρέστην; perfect παρέστηκα, participle παρεστηκώς and παρεστως; pluperfect 3 person plural παρειστήκεισαν (Acts 1:10 (WH παριστηκεισαν; see ἵστημι, at the beginning)); 1 future middle παραστήσομαί; from Homer down. 1. The present, imperfect, future and 1 aorist active have a transitive sense (the Sept. chiefly for הֶעֱמִיד), a. to place beside or near (παρά, IV. 1); to set at hand; to present; to proffer; to provide: κτήνη, Acts 23:24 (σκάφη, 2 Macc. 12:3); τινα or τί τίνι, to place a person or tiring at one's disposal, Matthew 26:53; to present a person for another to see and question, Acts 23:33; to present or show, τινα orτί with an accusative of the quality which the person or thing exhibits: οἷς παρέστησεν ἑαυτόν ζῶντα, Acts 1:3; add, Romans 6:13, 16, 19; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:27; 2 Timothy 2:15 (te vegetum nobis in Graeeia siste, Cicero, ad Att. 10, 16, 6); τινα with a predicate accusative followed by κατενώπιον τίνος, Colossians 1:22; ἑαυτόν ὡς (ὡσεί) τινα τίνι, Romans 6:13; to bring, lead to, in the sense of presenting, without a dative: Acts 9:41; Colossians 1:28. of sacrifices or of things consecrated to God: τά σώματα ὑμῶν θυσίαν ... τῷ Θεῷ, Romans 12:1 (so also in secular authors: Polybius 16, 25, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 4; Lucian, deor. concil. 13; Latinadmoveo, Vergil Aen. 12, 171; sisto, Stat. Theb. 4, 445); τινα (a firstborn) τῷ κυρίῳ, Luke 2:22; to bring to, bring near, metaphorically, i. e. to bring into one's fellowship or intimacy: τινα τῷ Θεῷ, 1 Corinthians 8:8; namely, τῷ Θεῷ, 2 Corinthians 4:14. b. to present (show) by argument, to prove: τί, Acts 24:13 (Epictetus diss. 2, 23, 47; followed by πῶς, id. 2, 26, 4; τίνι τί, Xenophon, oec. 13, 1; τίνι, ὅτι, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 3, 2; de vita sua §6). 2. Middle and perfect, pluperfect, 2 aorist active, in an intransitive sense (the Sept. chiefly for עָמַד, also for נִצַּב), to stand beside, stand by or near, to be at hand, be present; a. universally, to stand by: τίνι, to stand beside one, Acts 1:10; Acts 9:39; Acts 23:2; Acts 27:23; ὁ παρεστηκώς, a by-stander, Mark 14:47, 69 (here T Tr WH παρεστῶσιν); b. to appear: with a predicate nominative followed by ἐνώπιον τίνος, Acts 4:10 (A. V. stand here); before a judge, Καίσαρι, Acts 27:24; middle τῷ βήματι τοῦ Θεοῦ (R G Χριστοῦ), Romans 14:10. c. to be at hand, stand ready: of assailants, absolutely, Acts 4:26 (A. V. stood up) (from Psalm 2:2); to be at hand for service, of servants in attendance on their master (Latinappareo), τίνι, Esther 4:5; ἐνώπιον τίνος, 1 Kings 10:8; ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, of a presence-angel (A. V. that stand in the presence of God), Luke 1:19, cf. Revelation 8:2.; absolutely, οἱ παρεστῶτες, them that stood by, Luke 19:24; with αὐτῷ added (viz. the high-priest), Acts 23:2, 4. d. to stand by to help, to succor (German beistehen): τίνι, Romans 16:2; 2 Timothy 4:17 (Homer, Iliad 10, 290; Hesiod th. 439; Aristophanes vesp. 1388; Xenophon; Demosthenes, p. 366, 20; 1120, 26, and in other authors). e. to be present; to have come: of time, Mark 4:29. |
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