3889. paramuthia
Strong's Concordance
paramuthia: encouragement, exhortation, comfort
Original Word: παραμυθία, ας, ἡ
Part 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).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3889: παραμυθία

παραμυθία, παραμυθιας, (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.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
comfort.

From paramutheomai; consolation (properly, abstract) -- comfort.

see GREEK paramutheomai

Forms and Transliterations
παραμυθιαν παραμυθίαν paramuthian paramythian paramythían
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Strong's Greek 3889
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παραμυθίαν — 1 Occ.

1 Corinthians 14:3 N-AFS
GRK: παράκλησιν καὶ παραμυθίαν
NAS: and exhortation and consolation.
KJV: exhortation, and comfort.
INT: encouragement and consolation

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