Paratheoreo describes an ongoing failure to attend to the widows in the daily service.

Its sole attested use describes widows being overlooked in the daily service, a situation that gives rise to a complaint in Acts 6:1.

1. Overlooking people in an ongoing provision · dominant

   In Acts 6:1, the imperfect passive plural form occurs in the complaint concerning the widows and the daily service; the APB renders the clause "their widows were being neglected in the daily service."

   Acts 6:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 6:1, the APB presents the situation as "their widows were being neglected in the daily service." This describes the clause's presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.