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Strong's #3889 - παραμυθία
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- any address, whether made for the purpose of persuading, or of arousing and stimulating, or of calming and consoling
- consolation, comfort
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παραμῡθ-ία, ἡ,
encouragement, exhortation, Pl. R. 450d, Phld. Ir. p.65 W.(pl.); reassurance, gentle persuasion, Pl. Phd. 70b, Lg. 720a.
2. consolation, Id. Ax. 365a, Arr. Epict. 1.1.18; diversion, distraction, Pl. Sph. 224a.
3. relief from, abatement of, φθόνου Plu. Them. 22; τῶν πόνων καὶ τῶν κινδύνων Id. Dio 52, etc.; π. ταλαιπωρούντων, of sleep, Secund. Sent. 13.
4. explanation, solution of a difficulty, π. πρὸς τὴν ἀπορίαν Plu. 2.395f, cf. 929f, Simp. in Ph. 361.19.
5. excuse, ἔχειν τινὰ π. Longin. 4.7, cf. Hermog. Id. 1.11, al.
παραμυθία, παραμυθιας, ἡ (παραμυθέομαι), in classical Greek any address, whether made for the purpose of persuading, or of arousing and stimulating, or of calming and consoling; once in the N. T., like the Latinallocutio (Seneca, ad Marc. 1; ad Helv. 1), equivalent to consolation, comfort: 1 Corinthians 14:3. (So Plato, Ax., p. 365 a.; Aeschines dial. Socrates 3, 3; Josephus, b. j. 3, 7, 15; Lucian, dial. mort. 15, 3; Aelian v. h. 12, 1 at the end.)
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** παραμυθία , -ας , ἡ
(< παραμυθέομαι ),
[in LXX: Ezra 8:13, Wisdom of Solomon 19:12 *;]
1. encouragement, exhortation.
2. comfort, consolation: 1 Corinthians 14:3 .†
SYN.: παράκλησις G3874.
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For πέλαγος, ";the open sea"; (note the conjunction with θάλασσα in Matthew 18:6), see OGIS 74.3 (B.C. 247–221) Θεύδοτος Δωρίωνος Ἰουδαῖος σωθεὶς ἐκ πελ (άγ)ους, and cf. ib. 69.4 ff. σωθεὶς ἐγ μεγάλων κινδύνων ἐκπλεύσας ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. The adj. πελάγιος occurs in the sailor’s song P Oxy XI. 1383 (late iii/A.D.) where the 2nd column begins—
Ῥοδίοις ἐκέλευον ἀνέμοις καὶ μέρε ̣σι τ ̣οῖς πελαγίοις,
ὅτε πλέειν ἤθελον ἐγώ,
";I commanded the Rhodian winds and the seaward parts when I wished to sail.";
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