| | Lexicon paraineó: to exhort, adviseOriginal Word: παραινέωPart of Speech: VerbTransliteration: paraineóPhonetic Spelling: (par-ahee-neh'-o)Short Definition: I admonish, advise, exhortDefinition: I admonish, advise, exhort. HELPS word-Studies 3867 parainéō (from 3844 /pará, "from close-beside" and 134 /ainéō, "to praise") – properly, to urge acknowledging what is praiseworthy, i.e.  "recommend, advise, urge" (BAGD).  This is an emphatic compound which means "to admonish in a personal way" (note the force of the prefix, 3844 /pará) – i.e. as "up-close-and-personal." NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origin from para  and aineóDefinition to exhort, adviseNASB Translation admonish (1), urge (1). 
Thayer'sSTRONGS NT 3867: παραινέωπαραινέω , παραινῶ ; imperfect 3 person singular παρῄνει ; to exhort, admonish : with the addition of λέγων  followed by direct discourse, Acts 27:9 ; τινα  (in classical Greek more commonly τίνι  (Winer s Grammar, 223 (209); Buttmann , § 133, 9)), followed by an infinitive Acts 27:22  (Buttmann , §§ 140, 1; 141, 2). (From Herodotus  and Pindar  down; 2 Macc. 7:25f; 3Macc. 5:17.) 
 
 
 
Strong's exhort.  From para and aineo; to mispraise, i.e. Recommend or advise (a different course) -- admonish, exhort.  see GREEK para  see GREEK aineo  | 
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