Word

παραμυθέομαι

paramythéomai · G3888 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to console, to comfort, to encourage

To cause someone to become consoled

Examples
John 11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.
John 11:31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw that Mary had gotten up quickly and left, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 We urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: they 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
ὀλιγόψυχοςfainthearted 1
σύyou 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto+ περιπατέωto walk 1
περίconcerning, about, for+ ἀδελφόςbrother 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

To console, to comfort, to encourage25.153: παραμυθέομαι names the act of offering comfort to the grieving, as John describes the mourners gathered with Martha and Mary: “and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.” (John 11:19)

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

μῦθος mŷthos · G3454 · legend, myth, tale · 5×παραμυθέομαιparamythéomai · G3888παραμυθία paramythía · G3889 · consolation, encouragement · 1×παραμύθιον paramýthion · G3890 · consolation, encouragement · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παραμυθοῦμαι; 1 aorist παρεμυθησαμην; from Homer down; to speak to, address one, whether…

παραμυθοῦμαι; 1 aorist παρεμυθησαμην; from Homer down; to speak to, address one, whether by way of admonition and incentive, or to calm and console; hence, equivalent to to encourage, console: τινα, Jn 11:31; 1 Thess 2:12 (); ; τινα περί τίνος, Jn 11:19.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Encouragement, Consolation4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0