Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel tracks. 2. (a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with. 3. (a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage. 4. (n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc. 5. (n.) Direction conformable to that of another line, 6. (n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity. 7. (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope. 8. (n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart. 9. (n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map. 10. (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress. 11. (n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus,) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page. 12. (v. t.) To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else. 13. (v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like. 14. (v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to. 15. (v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel. 16. (v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.

Multi-Version Concordance Parallel (6 Occurrences) Exodus 26:17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle. (See NIV) Exodus 36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way. (See NIV) 2 Samuel 16:13 So David and his men went on their way: and Shimei went by the hillside parallel with them, cursing and sending stones and dust at him. (BBE NAS) Ezekiel 42:7 The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, its length was fifty cubits. (See RSV NIV) Ezekiel 42:12 According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them. (See NIV) Ezekiel 45:7 And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land. (See NIV)