παράκλησις paraklēsis

Greek word for “encouragement” · Strong’s G3874 · used 29 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

παρά-κλησις, -εως, ἡ;

How it is translated

Glosses given for paraklēsis in context, with how often each is used:

• comfort 11
• encouragement 9
• exhortation 6
• consolation 1
• entreaty 1
• our appeal 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 1 (5), 2 Corinthians 7 (3), Romans 15 (2), 2 Corinthians 8 (2), Luke 2 (1), Luke 6 (1), Acts 4 (1), Acts 9 (1), Acts 13 (1), Acts 15 (1)

Forms

• παρακλήσεως 12
• παράκλησιν 7
• παρακλήσει 7
• παράκλησις 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with paraklēsis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• παρακαλέω parakaleō “to plead/comfort” 6
• ἐλπίς elpis “hope” 4
• πάθημα pathēma “suffering” 3
• ὑπομονή hupomonē “perseverance” 3
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 4
• ἀνάγνωσις anagnōsis “reading” 2
• χαρά chara “joy” 3
• οἰκτιρμός oiktirmos “compassion” 2
• ἅγιος hagios “holy” 4
• χαίρω chairō “to rejoice” 3
• σπλάγχνον splagchnon “affection/entrails” 2
• ἀναπαύω anapauō “to give rest” 2

Key verses

The verses using paraklēsis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 2:25 — And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy…
• Acts 9:31 — Then had the churches rest throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy…
• Romans 12:8 — Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
• Romans 15:4 — For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• Romans 15:5 — Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
• 1 Corinthians 14:3 — But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
• 2 Corinthians 1:3 — Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
• 2 Corinthians 1:4 — Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of…
• Philippians 2:1 — If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• 2 Thessalonians 2:16 — Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
• Hebrews 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope…
• Hebrews 12:5 — And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.