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Strong's #3874 - παράκλησις
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- a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)
- importation, supplication, entreaty
- exhortation, admonition, encouragement
- consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment
- thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)
- persuasive discourse, stirring address
- instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse
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παρά-κλησις, εως, ἡ,
calling to one's aid, summons, οἱ ἐκ παρακλήσεως συγκαθήμενοι a packed party in the assembly, D. 18.143.
2. imploring, appealing, τινος of or on the part of one, Th. 4.61; deprecation, συγγνώμης δεῖ καὶ π. Str. 13.1.1.
3. invocation of gods, Iamb. Myst. 4.3 (pl.).
4. demand, request, PGrenf. 1.32.7 (pl., ii B.C.), etc.; κατὰ-σιν on demand, PLond. 3.1164d10 (iii A. D.).
II exhortation, address, πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον Th. 8.92; οὐ π. εὑρόντες, ἀλλὰ παραίνεσιν γράψαντες not a mere address to their feelings, but counsel to act rightly, Isoc. 1.5; π. τῶν πολιτῶν πρὸς ἀρετήν Aeschin. 1.117; τὴν τῆς σωφροσύνης παράκλησιν.. αὐτοὺς παρακέκληκα Id. 2.180; ἀξιώσεισκαὶ-κλήσεις Plb. 1.67.10.
III consolation, LXX Isaiah 30:7, Nahum 3:7, Hebrews 6:18, Phalar. 103.1.
παράκλησις, παρακλήσεως, ἡ (παρακαλέω, which see);
1. properly, a calling near, summons (especially for help, Thucydides 4, 61; Demosthenes, p. 275, 20).
2. imploration, supplication, entreaty: 2 Corinthians 8:4 (Strabo 13, p. 581; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 1, 5; (contra Apion 2, 23, 3 παράκλησις πρός τόν Θεόν ἔστω); λόγοι παρακλήσεως, words of appeal, containing entreaties, 1 Macc. 10:24).
3. exhortation, admonition, encouragement: Acts 15:31 (others refer this to 4); 1 Corinthians 14:3; 2 Corinthians 8:17; Philippians 2:1; 1 Timothy 4:13; Hebrews 12:5; λόγος τῆς παρακλήσεως, Hebrews 13:22 (2 Macc. 7:24 2Macc. 15:9 (11); Plato, del. 415 e.; Thucydides 8, 92; Aeschines, Polybius, others).
4. consolation, comfort, solace: 2 Corinthians 1:4-7; Hebrews 6:18; (add, Acts 9:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:16) (Jeremiah 16:7; Has. 13:14; (Job 21:2; Nahum 3:7); Phalaris, epistle 97 at the beginning); τῶν γραφῶν, afforded by the contents of the Scriptures, Romans 15:4 (Winer's Grammar, 189 (178)); Θεός τῆς παρακλήσεως, God the author and bestower of comfort, Romans 15:5; 2 Corinthians 1:3; solace or cheer which comes from a happy lot or a prosperous state of things, Luke 6:24; 2 Corinthians 7:4, 7, 13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 393 (368)); Philemon 1:7; by metonymy, that which affords comfort or refreshment; thus of the Messianic salvation, Luke 2:25 (so the rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter, κατ' ἐξοχήν, מְנַחֵם (cf. Wünsche, Neue Beiträge as above with at the passage; Schöttgen, Horae Hebrew etc. ii. 18)).
5. universally, "persuasive discourse, stirring address — instructive; admonitory, consolatory; powerful hortatory discourse": Romans 12:8; λόγος, παρακλήσεως (A. V. "word of exhortation), Acts 13:15; υἱός παρακλήσεως (a son of exhortation), a man gifted in teaching, admonishing, consoling, Acts 4:36; used of the apostles' instruction or preaching, 1 Thessalonians 2:3.
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παρά -κλησις , -εως , ἡ
(<παρακαλέω ),
[in LXX : Job 21:2, Psalms 94:19, Hosea 13:14, Nahum 3:7, Isaiah 57:18; Isaiah 66:11, Jeremiah 16:7 (H5162, its parts and derivatives), Jeremiah 38:9 (H8469), Isaiah 28:29; Isaiah 30:7, 1 Maccabees 10:24; 1 Maccabees 12:9, 2 Maccabees 7:24; 2 Maccabees 15:11*;]
1. a calling to one's aid, summons (Thus.), hence, appeal, entreaty (Strab., Plut., al., 1 Maccabees 10:24; of. Lft., Notes, 20) : 2 Corinthians 8:4.
2. exhortation, encouragement: Acts 15:31, Romans 12:8, 1 Corinthians 14:3, 2 Corinthians 8:17, Philippians 2:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:3, 1 Timothy 4:13, Hebrews 12:5; λόγος (τῆς ) Papyri, Acts 13:15, Hebrews 13:22; υἱὸς Papyri, Acts 4:36.
3. consolation, comfort (Phalar., LXX) : Luke 6:24, Acts 9:31, 2 Corinthians 1:4-7; 2 Corinthians 7:4; 2 Corinthians 7:7; 2 Corinthians 7:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, Philemon 1:7; τ . γραφῶν , Romans 15:4; θεὸς τῆς Papyri, Romans 15:5, 2 Corinthians 1:3; Papyri τοῦ Ἰσραήλ (v. Dalman, Words, 109 f.), Lk
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