PARABLE
Psalm 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon
the harp
Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Proverbs 26:7
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of
fools.
Proverbs 26:9
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the
mouths of fools.
Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of
Israel;
Ezekiel 20:49
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Matthew 13:31
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and
sowed in his field:
Matthew 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom
of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of
meal, till the whole was leavened.
(Ref.) KJV
A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse,
which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or
(sometimes) a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants,
inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally
feature human characters. It is a type of analogy.
Some scholars of the Canonical gospels and the New Testament
apply the term "parable" only to the parables of Jesus, though that is not a common restriction of the term.
Parables such as "The
Prodigal Son" are central to Jesus'
teaching method in both the canonical
narratives and the apocrypha.
Etymology: The
word "parable" comes from the Greek
παραβολή (parabolē), meaning "comparison, illustration,
analogy". It was the name given by Greek rhetoricians
to any fictive illustration in the form of a brief narrative. Later it came to
mean a fictitious narrative, generally referring to something that might naturally
occur, by which spiritual and moral matters might be conveyed.
From Wikipedia
Definition of: PARABLE
example;
specifically: a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral
attitude or a religious principle
Examples of PARABLE
He told the children a parable about the importance
of forgiveness. (for giving)
the parable of the Good Samaritan
Origin of PARABLE
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin
parabola, from Greek parabolē comparison, from paraballein to compare, from para- + ball (pare of
balls) to throw, more at devil
First Known Use: 14th century
Related to PARABLE
Synonyms: apologue,
fable,
allegory Related Words: beast fable,
bestiary;
morality play;
legend,
myth,
mythology,
narrative,
tale (Ref.) merriam-webster
Ball (plural balls)
A solid or hollow sphere.
An object, generally spherical,
used for playing games.
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a
spherical shape.
ball of wool
Any simple game involving a ball.
The children were playing ball on the beach.
The children were playing ball in the garden.
(baseball)
A pitch
that falls outside of the strike
zone.
(pinball) An opportunity to launch the pinball
into play.
If you get to a million points, you get another
ball.
(ballistics) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile
for a cannon, etc.
(ballistics) A jacketed
non-expanding
bullet, typically of military
origin.
(mathematics)
The set of points in a metric
space lying within a given distance (the radius)
of a given point; specifically, the homologue
of the disk
in a Euclidean space
of any number of dimensions.
(mathematics,
more generally) The set of points in a topological
space lying within some open
set
containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.
(mildly vulgar, slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
(mildly vulgar, slang, in the plural)
Nonsense.
That’s a load of balls, and you know it! — Synonyms
— See Wikisaurus:nonsense
(slang, in the plural)
Courage. I doubt he’s got the balls to cut them
off. (Ref.) wiktionary
Many of Jesus' parables refer to simple everyday
things, such as a woman baking bread (parable of the Leaven),
a man knocking on his neighbor's door at night (parable of the Friend
at Night), or the aftermath of a roadside mugging (parable of the Good Samaritan);
yet they deal with major religious themes, such as the growth of the Kingdom
of God, the
importance of prayer, and the meaning of love.
(Ref.) Wikipedia
(The Lord is
Come, honor all men)