Lexical 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 Latinallocutio (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.) |