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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 Box Luk 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:25 - And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name is Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:24 - 'But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:36 - And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort -- a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:31 - Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:15 - and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:31 - and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:8 - or he who is exhorting -- 'In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- 'In simplicity!' he who is leading -- 'In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- 'In cheerfulness.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:4 - for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:5 - And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:3 - and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:3 - Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:5 - because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:6 - and whether we be in tribulation, it is for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:7 - and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:4 - great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:7 - and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:13 - because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:4 - with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 8:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:17 - because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:1 - If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:3 - for our exhortation is not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Th 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:13 - till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;

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Unchecked Copy Box Phm 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPhm 1:7 - for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:18 - that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:5 - and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:22 - And I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of the exhortation, for also through few words I have written to you.
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