Lexicon paramuthia: encouragement, exhortation, comfort Original Word: παραμυθία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paramuthia Phonetic Spelling: (par-am-oo-thee'-ah) Short Definition: encouragement, comfort Definition: encouragement, comfort, consolation, exhortation. 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 paramutheomaiDefinitionencouragement, exhortation, comfort NASB Translationconsolation (1).
Thayer's 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 Latin allocutio ( 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.)
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