Greek verb · G3888
παραμυθέομαι
paramytheomaipar-am-oo-theh'-om-ahee
to encourage, exhort.; to comfort, console
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paramythéomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3888is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3888
to relate near, i.e. (by implication) encourage, console
The King James renders it: comfort.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
paramytheomai is rendered "to encourage, exhort.; to comfort, console". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to encourage, exhort.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 11:19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
John 11:19παραμυθήσωνται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in John.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to encourage, exhort., and to comfort, console.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to encourage, exhort. | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 11:19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother. |
| to comfort, consolewith accusative of person(s), Jhn.11:31, 1Th.2:11 5:14; id. before περί, Jhn.11:19.† | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 11:19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρά | para | from/with/beside | Uses192 |
| παραδίδωμι | paradidomi | to deliver | Uses119 |
| παρακαλέω | parakaleo | to plead/comfort | Uses108 |
| παραβολή | parabole | parable | Uses50 |
| παραλαμβάνω | paralambano | to take | Uses49 |
| παραγίνομαι | paraginomai | to come | Uses36 |
| παραγγέλλω | parangello | to order | Uses31 |
| παράκλησις | paraklesis | encouragement | Uses29 |
| παράπτωμα | paraptoma | trespass | Uses19 |
| παρατίθημι | paratithemi | to set before | Uses19 |
| παραχρῆμα | parachrema | instantly | Uses18 |
| παράδοσις | paradosis | tradition | Uses13 |
and 60 more on the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- παραμυθεῖσθε1
- παραμυθήσωνται1
- παραμυθούμενοι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-ADS-3P
- verb · present middle or passive form, command · 2nd person plural1V-PNM-2P
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PNP-NPM
John
two uses
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
- παραμυθήσωνταιparamuthesontaiverb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may console
When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
- παραμυθούμενοιparamuthoumenoiverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: consoling
1 Thessalonians
one use
And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
- παραμυθεῖσθεparamutheistheverb · present middle or passive form, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do encourage
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.