παράκλησις (parάklaʸsis) — to encourage / to console / encouragement

Notes: The term παράκλητος, when used as a title for the Holy Spirit, is treated in 12.19: παράκλητος.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: παράκλησις; -εως

Related lemmas: καλέω

Sense 1: to encourage, to console, encouragement

Semantic entry: 25.150

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Encouragement, Consolation

Definition: to cause someone to be encouraged or consoled, either by verbal or non-verbal means{N:001}

Show passage in OET: LUK 2:25

OET-RV LUK 2:25

25 Now listen, there was a man named Shim’on (Simeon; Grk. Sumeon) in Yerushalem and he was godly and committed, waiting for God to rescue Yisrael (Israel). He was full of the holy spirit

OET-LV LUK 2:25

25 And see, a_man was in Hierousalaʸm, whose name was Sumeōn/(Shimˊōn), and the this_ man _was righteous and devout, waiting _for the_comfort of_ the _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl), and the_ holy _spirit was on him.

Show passage in OET: LUK 6:24

OET-RV LUK 6:24

24 However it’s tragic for all you rich people, because you’ve already enjoyed all those comforts.

OET-LV LUK 6:24

24 However woe to _you _all the rich, because you _all _are _receiving _fully the comfort of _you _all.

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All 27 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: OET LUK 2:25 · OET LUK 6:24

ACT: OET ACT 4:36 · OET ACT 9:31 · OET ACT 13:15 · OET ACT 15:31

ROM: OET ROM 12:8 · OET ROM 15:4–5

CO1: OET CO1 14:3

CO2: OET CO2 1:3–7 · OET CO2 7:4 · OET CO2 7:7 · OET CO2 7:13 · OET CO2 8:17

PHP: OET PHP 2:1

TH1: OET TH1 2:3

TH2: OET TH2 2:16

TI1: OET TI1 4:13

PHM: OET PHM 1:7

HEB: OET HEB 6:18 · OET HEB 12:5 · OET HEB 13:22

Sense 2: to ask for (earnestly), to request, to plead for, to appeal to, earnest request, appeal

Semantic entry: 33.168

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Ask For, Request

Definition: to ask for something earnestly and with propriety

Show passage in OET: CO2 8:4

OET-RV CO2 8:4

4 and enthusiastically begged us to allow them the grace and fellowship that would come from their service to other believers.

OET-LV CO2 8:4

4 with much exhortation beseeching of _us, the grace and the fellowship of _the service which among the holy ones.

Show passage in OET: TH1 2:3

OET-RV TH1 2:3

3 As we recommend a change in your lifestyles, we don’t do it with deception or impurity or deceit,

OET-LV TH1 2:3

3 For/Because the exhortation of _us not of deception, nor of impurity, nor in deceit,

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament