Meanings
plural parablepses · alternative parablepsia · alternative parablepsy
- countableuncountablebiologyA 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 4001 more example
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
Origin
- Ancient Greekπαρά“beside”
- Englishparablepsis
From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) and βλέπω (blépō, “to look at”).
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