Strong's #3870: parakaleo (pronounced par-ak-al-eh'-o)
from 3844 and 2564; to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation):--beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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parakaleō
1) to call to one' s side, call for, summon
2) to address, speak to, (call to, call upon), which may be done in the way of exhortation, entreaty, comfort, instruction, etc.
2a) to admonish, exhort
2b) to beg, entreat, beseech
2b1) to strive to appease by entreaty
2c) to console, to encourage and strengthen by consolation, to comfort
2c1) to receive consolation, be comforted
2d) to encourage, strengthen
2e) exhorting and comforting and encouraging
2f) to instruct, teach
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G3844 and G2564
Citing in TDNT: 5:773, 778
Usage:
This word is used 108 times:
Hebrews 3:13: "But exhort one another daily, while"
Hebrews 10:25: "as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more,"
Hebrews 13:19: "But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you"
Hebrews 13:22: "And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation:"
1 Peter 2:11: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly"
1 Peter 5:1: "which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the"
1 Peter 5:12: "I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this"
Jude 1:3: "it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith"
