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G3889

παραμυθία

paramuthiaG:N-F

comfort

παραμυθία, -ας, ἡ (παραμυθέομαι) [in LXX: Est.8:13, Wis.19:12 * ;] __1. encouragement, exhortation. __2. comfort, consolation: 1Co.14:3 .† SYN.: παράκλησις (AS)

The KJV translates G3889 in the following manner:

comfort (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

παραμυθία — paramythía

παραμυθία, 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: 1Co 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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