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parablepsis

parablepsis noun: a circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.

Noun

parablepsis (countable and uncountable, plural parablepses)

  1. A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.
    • So too parablepses due to homoioteleuton in the Greek text are irrelevant for the Hebrew text.1978, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Congress Volume, →ISBN, page 400
    • Vertical parablebsis does not fit either, since it should be in the range of several lines (two or three lines).2009, Raymond De Hoop, Marjo Christina Annette Korpel, Stanley E. Porter, The Impact of Unit Delimitation on Exegesis, →ISBN, page 35

Forms of parablepsis

pluralparablepses
alternative formparablepsia
alternative formparablepsy

Origin of parablepsis

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”).

Questions about parablepsis

What does parablepsis mean?
Parablepsis means a circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.
What part of speech is parablepsis?
Parablepsis is a noun.
What is the plural of parablepsis?
The plural of parablepsis is parablepses.

Words near parablepsis in the dictionary

  1. parable
  2. parabled
  3. parablelike
  4. parablepses
  5. parablepsia
  6. parablepsis
  7. parablepsy
  8. parables
  9. parabling
  10. parabodonid
  11. parabodonids

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