Strong's Lexicon paramuthia: Comfort, Consolation, Encouragement Original Word: παραμυθία HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 3889 paramythía (a feminine noun) – "primarily 'a speaking closely to anyone' (para, 'near,' mythos, 'speech'); hence it denotes 'consolation, comfort,' with a greater degree of tenderness than 3874 (paráklēsis)" (Vine, Unger, White, NT, 111, italics added). See 3888 (paramytheomai). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom paramutheomai Definition encouragement, exhortation, comfort NASB Translation consolation (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3889: παραμυθίαπαραμυθία, παραμυθιας, ἡ (παραμυθέομαι), in classical Greek any address, whether made for the purpose of persuading, or of arousing and stimulating, or of calming and consoling; once in the N. T., like the Latinallocutio (Seneca, ad Marc. 1; ad Helv. 1), equivalent to consolation, comfort: 1 Corinthians 14:3. (So Plato, Ax., p. 365 a.; Aeschines dial. Socrates 3, 3; Josephus, b. j. 3, 7, 15; Lucian, dial. mort. 15, 3; Aelian v. h. 12, 1 at the end.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance comfort. From paramutheomai; consolation (properly, abstract) -- comfort. see GREEK paramutheomai Forms and Transliterations παραμυθιαν παραμυθίαν paramuthian paramythian paramythíanLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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