Lexicon paraggelia: an instruction, a command Original Word: παραγγελία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paraggelia Phonetic Spelling: (par-ang-gel-ee'-ah) Short Definition: a command, charge Definition: a command, charge, injunction; a precept, rule of living. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3852 paraggelía – a command, literally "something announced from close-beside" and therefore fully authorized. 3852 /paraggelía ("fully authorized command") is preeminently used of the Lord – the one who owns all things. Christ speaks His rhēma-word into the believer – giving a command (3852 /paraggelía) that passes on His preferred-will (cf. Ro 10:17, Gk text and 2307 /thélēma). Accordingly, 3852 (paraggelía) and faith (4102 /pístis, "God's inworked persuasions") are directly connected. See 3853 (parangéllō). 1 Tim 1:5: "But the goal of our instruction (3852 /paraggelía) is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith (4102 /pístis)" (NASU). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom paraggellóDefinitionan instruction, a command NASB Translationcommand (2), commandments (1), instruction (1), strict orders (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3852: παραγγελίαπαραγγελία, παραγγελίας, ἡ ( παραγγέλλω), properly, announcement, a proclaiming or giving a message to; hence, a charge, command: Acts 16:24; a prohibition, Acts 5:28; used of the Christian doctrine relative to right living, 1 Timothy 1:5; of particular directions relative to the same, 18; plural in 1 Thessalonians 4:2. (Of a military order in Xenophon, Polybius; of instruction, Aristotle, eth. Nic. 2, 2, p. 1104{a}, 7; Diodorus except p. 512, 19 (i. e. fragment book 26:1, 1).)
Strong's mandate, charge, command. From paraggello; a mandate -- charge, command. see GREEK paraggello |
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