Definition

to place alongside, i.e. present (food, truth); by implication, to deposit (as a trust or for protection)

Etymology

from G3844 (παρά) and G5087 (τίθημι);

Where the KJV renders it

• allege
• commend
• commit (the keeping of)
• put forth
• set before

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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