Strong's numbers
παραβολή G3850
parabolḗ
par-ab-ol-ay'
from παραβάλλω; a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage:--comparison, figure, parable, proverb.
Abbott–Smith
παραβολή, -ῆς, ἡ (< παραβάλλω), [in LXX (cf. McNeile, Mt., 185): Nu 23:7, De 28:37, Ps 43 (44):14, Pr 1:6, Ez 12:22, al. (מָשָׁל), Si 47:17 (חִידָה), al. mutt. in Si, Wi 5:3;]
1. a placing beside, juxtaposition (Polyb., al.).
2. a comparing, comparison (Plat., Arist., al.).
3. a comparison, illustration, analogy, figure (Arist., al.): Mt 24:32, Mk 3:23, He 9:9 11:19; specif. of the pictures and narratives drawn from nature and human life which are characteristic of the synoptic teaching of our Lord, a parable: Mt 13:3, 10, Mk 4:2, 10, Lk 8:4, 9-11, al.; c. gen. ref., Mt 13:18, 36.
4 Like Heb. מָשָׁל (I Ki 10:12, Pr 1:6, Si 3:29, al.), = παροιμία, a proverb or gnomic saying: Lk 4:23 5:36 6:39.
SYN.: παροιμία (v. Abbott, Essays, 82 ff.).
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.
48 occurrences
Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.
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Mark 4:13
And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
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Mark 4:30
And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
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Mark 4:33
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
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Mark 4:34
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
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Mark 7:17
And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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Mark 12:1
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
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Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
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Mark 13:28
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
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Luke 4:23
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
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Luke 5:36
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.