Bible word study

Parousia (Strong’s G3952): Meaning in the Bible

Parousia (παρουσία) is the Greek word numbered G3952 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a being near, i.e. advent (often, return; specially, of Christ to punish Jerusalem, or finally the wicked); (by implication) physically, aspect. In the King James Bible it is translated coming, presence..

• Original wordπαρουσία
• Transliterationparousía
• Pronunciationpar-oo-see'-ah
• Strong’s numberG3952
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the present participle of G3918;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Parousia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Parousia (G3952) stands behind 26 English renderings in 24 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (5), 1 Thessalonians (4), 2 Peter (4).

How the King James Bible renders Parousia, by count

• coming19 of 26 (73 percent)
• the coming3 of 26 (12 percent)
• of2 of 26 (8 percent)
• presence2 of 26 (8 percent)

Three places to read Parousia

• Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
• 2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Parousia in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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