G3889
G3889 — παραμυθία
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
paramuthia (par-am-oo-thee'-ah) n.
1. consolation (properly, abstract)
[from G3888]
KJV: comfort
Root(s): G3888
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
comfort
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
παραμυθία (comfort)
1 Corinthians 14:3
- KJV: But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification and exhortation and comfort
- GK: ο δε προφητεύων ανθρώποις λαλεί οικοδομήν και παράκλησιν και παραμυθίαν