parapherō

παραφέρω is a compound of the preposition παρά ("beside, past, aside") and φέρω ("carry"), with a suppletive aorist παρήνεγκα (imperative παρένεγκε). Its classical and Koine range is broad (to set food before someone, to cite or adduce, to carry past, to remove, and in the middle/passive to be swept along or led astray), and context, especially voice, object, and any accompanying preposition, does the disambiguating. In the active with ἀπό and the genitive it means "take away, remove" (Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42), which BDAG lists as its first New Testament sense and which every major English version renders "take away" or "remove"; both Mark and Luke use the transitive verb, implicitly making the Father the agent, where Matthew 26:39 instead uses the intransitive παρέρχομαι with the cup as subject. In the passive it means "be carried off course": physically, of wind-driven clouds (Jude 12), and figuratively, of being drawn away from sound teaching (Hebrews 13:9), which Louw-Nida registers under a separate cognitive domain of being misled. Later scribes altered both passives toward the commoner περιφέρω (Hebrews 13:9; Jude 12), a harmonization to Ephesians 4:14 in Hebrews, and Luke 22:42 varies between the imperative παρένεγκε and the infinitive παρενεγκεῖν, but the sense is unaffected in each case. The verb is nearly absent from the Septuagint (only 1 Kingdoms 21:14, of David feigning madness before Achish), so the New Testament writers draw on the literary Koine of Plutarch, Diodorus, and Marcus Aurelius rather than on a Septuagintal background.