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παραμύθιον

paramýthion · G3890 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. consolation, encouragement

    (Derivative of παραμυθέομαι ‘to comfort,’) That which causes or constitutes the basis for consolation and encouragement

    Examples

    Philippians 2:1 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
παράκλησις paráklēsis · G3874 · to encourage, to console, encouragement
παραμυθία denotes concrete comfort or consolation, while παράκλησις is the broader term, encompassing exhortation and appeal alongside consolation. The two converge in the shared field of comfort and encouragement, with παράκλησις being the more general of the pair.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Consolation, encouragement25.154
παραμύθιον names a comforting word or encouragement, as Paul appeals to the Philippians' shared experience in Christ: “Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion.” (Philippians 2:1)
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×παραμυθέομαι paramythéomai · G3888 · to console, to comfort, to encourage · 4×παραμυθία paramythía · G3889 · consolation, encouragement · 1×παραμύθιονparamýthion · G3890
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παραμυθου, τό, (παραμυθέομαι),persuasive address: Phm 2:1. (consolation, Wis. 3:18 and…
παραμυθου, τό, (παραμυθέομαι),persuasive address: Phm 2:1. (consolation, Wis. 3:18 and often in Greek writings (from Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato on).)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Encouragement, Consolation1 occurrence

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

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