παράκλησις
exhortation
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 12 times (41%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (24%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (24%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 29 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3874 appears — 28 distinct verses across 11 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 2:25 παράκλησιν n acc sg fem Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
- Luke 6:24 παράκλησιν n acc sg fem "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 4:36 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
- Acts 9:31 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 13:15 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 15:31 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
Romans 3 verses
- Romans 12:8 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Romans 15:4 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Romans 15:5 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 10 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:3 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- 2 Corinthians 1:4 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- 2 Corinthians 1:5 παράκλησις n nom sg fem For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 παρακλήσεως παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem n gen sg fem But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- 2 Corinthians 1:7 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
- 2 Corinthians 7:4 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
- 2 Corinthians 7:7 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.
- 2 Corinthians 7:13 παρακλήσει n dat sg fem Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
- 2 Corinthians 8:4 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
- 2 Corinthians 8:17 παράκλησιν n acc sg fem For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
Philippians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Philemon 1 verse
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 6:18 παράκλησιν n acc sg fem that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Hebrews 12:5 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
- Hebrews 13:22 παρακλήσεως n gen sg fem But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
παρακλησις (paráklēsis) is a Greek noun most often rendered “exhortation.” Its English rendering has broadened — “consolation” classically, “encouragement” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 28 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. 2 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 10 of 28 verses. Its lexical range runs to 5 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3874 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 28
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 28 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #471
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 471 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 28 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 10 verses 36%
- Acts 4 verses 14%
- Romans 3 verses 11%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 28 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 19 verses · 68%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 21%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 11%
- Gospels 2 verses · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Consolation 14×, Exhortation 8×, Comfort 6×
- American Standard Version: Comfort 12×, Exhortation 7×, Consolation 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Encouragement 10×, Comfort 9×, Exhortation 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Encouragement 11×, Comfort 10×, Exhortation 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3874 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3874 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3874 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3874 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)
- importation, supplication, entreaty
- exhortation, admonition, encouragement
- consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment
- persuasive discourse, stirring address
Word origin
Derived from παρακαλεω (parakaléō) (G3870) — to call beside.
From G3870 ; imploration hortation solace : - comfort consolation exhortation intreaty.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3874 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παρακλήσεως paraklḗseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 4:36 | 12 |
| παράκλησιν paráklēsin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:25 | 7 |
| παρακλήσει paraklḗsei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 9:31 | 7 |
| παράκλησις paráklēsis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 1:5 | 3 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παρακλησις appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 21:2 παράκλησις
- Psalms 93:19 παράκλησις
- Isaiah 28:29 παράκλησις
- Jeremiah 16:7 παράκλησις
- Hosea 13:14 παράκλησις
- Nahum 3:7 παράκλησις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3874) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 21:2 παράκλησις "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
- Psalms 93:19 παράκλησις
- Isaiah 28:29 παράκλησις This also comes forth from Yahweh of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
- Isaiah 30:7 παράκλησις For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
- Isaiah 57:18 παράκλησις I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
- Isaiah 66:11 παρακλήσις that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
- Jeremiah 16:7 παράκλησις neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
- Jeremiah 38:9 παράκλησις My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
- Hosea 13:14 παράκλησις I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- Nahum 3:7 παράκλησις It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3874) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
