Strong's #3874: paraklesis (pronounced par-ak'-lay-sis)
from 3870; imploration, hortation, solace:--comfort, consolation, exhortation, intreaty.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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paraklēsis
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
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G3870
Citing in TDNT: 5:773, 778
Usage:
This word is used 29 times:
Luke 2:25: "and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost"
Luke 6:24: "for ye have received your consolation."
Acts 4:36: "(which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,"
Acts 9:31: "Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied."
Acts 13:15: "if ye have any word of exhortation for the"
Acts 15:31: "they rejoiced for the consolation."
Romans 12:8: "Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth,"
Romans 15:4: "we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."
Romans 15:5: "God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded"
1 Corinthians 14:3: "unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort."
2 Corinthians 1:3: "and the God of all comfort;"
2 Corinthians 1:4: "trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of"
2 Corinthians 1:5: "us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ."
2 Corinthians 1:6: "we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in"
2 Corinthians 1:6: "we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation."
2 Corinthians 1:7: "so shall ye be also of the consolation."
2 Corinthians 7:4: "of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all"
2 Corinthians 7:7: "but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in"
2 Corinthians 7:13: "Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more"
2 Corinthians 8:4: "us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift,"
2 Corinthians 8:17: "indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord"
Philippians 2:1: "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,"
1 Thessalonians 2:3: "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of"
2 Thessalonians 2:16: "and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through"
1 Timothy 4:13: "I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine."
Philemon 1:7: "great joy and consolation in thy love, because"
Hebrews 6:18: "to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before"
Hebrews 12:5: "And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as"
Hebrews 13:22: "suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you"
