Word Summary
paramythia: encouragement, exhortation, comfort
Original Word: παραμυθίαTransliteration: paramythia
Phonetic Spelling: (par-am-oo-thee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: encouragement, exhortation, comfort
Meaning: encouragement, exhortation, comfort
Strong's Concordance
comfort.
From paramutheomai; consolation (properly, abstract) -- comfort.
see GREEK paramutheomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.)