Strong’s definition
a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage
KJV gloss list in the source
comparison, figure, parable, proverb
Derivation recorded by Strong
from G3846 (παραβάλλω);
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