to furnish occasion
parecho denotes making something available or bringing it about, including the provision of benefits, work, assurance, or trouble.
The term most often marks supplying, granting, or otherwise making something available: work, provisions, assurance, quietness, kindness, or an example. In a smaller group of passages, it describes bringing trouble or disturbance upon someone.
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Supplying, granting, or presenting something · dominant
In Acts 16:16 and Acts 19:24, imperfect forms occur in clauses about furnishing work for others. In 1 Timothy 6:17 the present participle describes God in the clause the APB renders "who richly provides us with everything for enjoyment," while Acts 17:31 uses an aorist participle where the APB says assurance was given to all. Colossians 4:1 addresses masters in a clause rendered "provide your slaves with what is just and fair."
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Causing trouble or disturbance · common
In Mark 14:6 and Matthew 26:10, present active plural forms occur in Jesus' question about why people are troubling the woman. Luke 11:7 has a present active singular form in the reply "Do not bother me," and Galatians 6:17 asks that no one furnish trouble; Luke 18:5 likewise places the infinitive in the judge's complaint about the widow's continuing pressure.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB varies between expressions such as "furnish," "provides," "given," "provide," and "troubling." These are renderings of whole clauses, but they reflect the contrast between supplying something and bringing trouble about in the cited contexts.