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Lexicon :: Strong's G3874 - paraklēsis

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παράκλησις
Transliteration
paraklēsis (Key)
Pronunciation
par-ak'-lay-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:773,778

Strong’s Definitions

παράκλησις paráklēsis, par-ak'-lay-sis; from G3870; imploration, hortation, solace:—comfort, consolation, exhortation, intreaty.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G3874 in the following manner: consolation (14x), exhortation (8x), comfort (6x), intreaty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G3874 in the following manner: consolation (14x), exhortation (8x), comfort (6x), intreaty (1x).

  1. a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)

  2. [imploration]1, supplication, entreaty

  3. exhortation, admonition, encouragement

  4. consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment

    1. thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)

  5. persuasive discourse, stirring address

    1. instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse


1. Edited by BLB [An error was made in the original document incorrectly stating "importation".]

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παράκλησις paráklēsis, par-ak'-lay-sis; from G3870; imploration, hortation, solace:—comfort, consolation, exhortation, intreaty.
STRONGS G3874:
παράκλησις, παρακλήσεως, ἡ (παρακαλέω, which see);
1. properly, a calling near, summons (especially for help, Thucydides 4, 61; Demosthenes, p. 275, 20).
2. imploration, supplication, entreaty: 2 Corinthians 8:4 (Strabo 13, p. 581; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 1, 5; (contra Apion 2, 23, 3 παράκλησις πρός τόν Θεόν ἔστω); λόγοι παρακλήσεως, words of appeal, containing entreaties, 1 Macc. 10:24).
3. exhortation, admonition, encouragement: Acts 15:31 (others refer this to 4); 1 Corinthians 14:3; 2 Corinthians 8:17; Philippians 2:1; 1 Timothy 4:13; Hebrews 12:5; λόγος τῆς παρακλήσεως, Hebrews 13:22 (2 Macc. 7:24 2Macc. 15:9 (11); Plato, del. 415 e.; Thucydides 8, 92; Aeschines, Polybius, others).
4. consolation, comfort, solace: 2 Corinthians 1:4-7; Hebrews 6:18; (add, Acts 9:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:16) (Jeremiah 16:7; Has. 13:14; (Job 21:2; Nahum 3:7); Phalaris, epistle 97 at the beginning); τῶν γραφῶν, afforded by the contents of the Scriptures, Romans 15:4 (Winer's Grammar, 189 (178)); Θεός τῆς παρακλήσεως, God the author and bestower of comfort, Romans 15:5; 2 Corinthians 1:3; solace or cheer which comes from a happy lot or a prosperous state of things, Luke 6:24; 2 Corinthians 7:4, 7, 13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 393 (368)); Philemon 1:7; by metonymy, that which affords comfort or refreshment; thus of the Messianic salvation, Luke 2:25 (so the rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter, κατ' ἐξοχήν, מְנַחֵם (cf. Wünsche, Neue Beiträge as above with at the passage; Schöttgen, Horae Hebrew etc. ii. 18)).
5. universally, "persuasive discourse, stirring address — instructive; admonitory, consolatory; powerful hortatory discourse": Romans 12:8; λόγος, παρακλήσεως (A. V. "word of exhortation), Acts 13:15; υἱός παρακλήσεως (a son of exhortation), a man gifted in teaching, admonishing, consoling, Acts 4:36; used of the apostles' instruction or preaching, 1 Thessalonians 2:3.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Job
21:2
Jeremiah
16:7
Nahum
3:7
Luke
2:25; 6:24
Acts
4:36; 9:31; 13:15; 15:31
Romans
12:8; 15:4; 15:5
1 Corinthians
14:3
2 Corinthians
1:3; 1:4; 1:5; 1:6; 1:7; 7:4; 7:7; 7:13; 8:4; 8:17
Philippians
2:1
1 Thessalonians
2:3
2 Thessalonians
2:16
1 Timothy
4:13
Philemon
1:7
Hebrews
6:18; 12:5; 13:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3874 matches the Greek παράκλησις (paraklēsis),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:25 - et ecce homo erat in Hierusalem cui nomen Symeon et homo iste iustus et timoratus expectans consolationem Israhel et Spiritus Sanctus erat in eo

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:24 - verumtamen vae vobis divitibus quia habetis consolationem vestram

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:36 - Ioseph autem qui cognominatus est Barnabas ab apostolis quod est interpretatum Filius consolationis Levites Cyprius genere

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:31 - ecclesia quidem per totam Iudaeam et Galilaeam et Samariam habebat pacem et aedificabatur ambulans in timore Domini et consolatione Sancti Spiritus replebatur

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:15 - post lectionem autem legis et prophetarum miserunt principes synagogae ad eos dicentes viri fratres si quis est in vobis sermo exhortationis ad plebem dicite

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:31 - quam cum legissent gavisi sunt super consolatione

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:8 - qui exhortatur in exhortando qui tribuit in simplicitate qui praeest in sollicitudine qui miseretur in hilaritate

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:4 - quaecumque enim scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt ut per patientiam et consolationem scripturarum spem habeamus

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:5 - Deus autem patientiae et solacii det vobis id ipsum sapere in alterutrum secundum Iesum Christum

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:3 - nam qui prophetat hominibus loquitur aedificationem et exhortationem et consolationes

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:3 - benedictus Deus et Pater Domini nostri Iesu Christi Pater misericordiarum et Deus totius consolationis

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - qui consolatur nos in omni tribulatione nostra ut possimus et ipsi consolari eos qui in omni pressura sunt per exhortationem qua exhortamur et ipsi a Deo

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:5 - quoniam sicut abundant passiones Christi in nobis ita et per Christum abundat consolatio nostra

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:6 - sive autem tribulamur pro vestra exhortatione et salute sive exhortamur pro vestra exhortatione quae operatur in tolerantia earundem passionum quas et nos patimur

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:7 - et spes nostra firma pro vobis scientes quoniam sicut socii passionum estis sic eritis et consolationis

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - multa mihi fiducia est apud vos multa mihi gloriatio pro vobis repletus sum consolatione superabundo gaudio in omni tribulatione nostra

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:7 - non solum autem in adventu eius sed etiam in solacio quo consolatus est in vobis referens nobis vestrum desiderium vestrum fletum vestram aemulationem pro me ita ut magis gauderem

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:13 - ideo consolati sumus in consolatione autem nostra abundantius magis gavisi sumus super gaudium Titi quia refectus est spiritus eius ab omnibus vobis

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:4 - cum multa exhortatione obsecrantes nos gratiam et communicationem ministerii quod fit in sanctos

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:17 - quoniam exhortationem quidem suscepit sed cum sollicitior esset sua voluntate profectus est ad vos

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:1 - si qua ergo consolatio in Christo si quod solacium caritatis si qua societas spiritus si quid viscera et miserationes

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:3 - exhortatio enim nostra non de errore neque de inmunditia neque in dolo

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - ipse autem Dominus noster Iesus Christus et Deus et Pater noster qui dilexit nos et dedit consolationem aeternam et spem bonam in gratia

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:13 - dum venio adtende lectioni exhortationi doctrinae

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:7 - gaudium enim magnum habui et consolationem in caritate tua quia viscera sanctorum requieverunt per te frater

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:18 - ut per duas res inmobiles quibus inpossibile est mentiri Deum fortissimum solacium habeamus qui confugimus ad tenendam propositam spem

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:5 - et obliti estis consolationis quae vobis tamquam filiis loquitur dicens fili mi noli neglegere disciplinam Domini neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:22 - rogo autem vos fratres sufferatis verbum solacii etenim perpaucis scripsi vobis
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