G3874 – paraklesis – παράκλησις comfort, consolation, exhortation, intreaty

Strong’s ID:
G3874
Greek Word:
παράκλησις
Transliteration:
paraklesis
Pronunciation:
par-ak’-lay-sis
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage Count:
29
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from G3870; imploration, hortation, solace:—comfort, consolation, exhortation, intreaty.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a calling near, summons, (especially for help)
2) importation, supplication, entreaty
3) exhortation, admonition, encouragement
4) consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment
4a) thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)
5) persuasive discourse, stirring address
5a) instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.