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Strong's #3890 - παραμύθιον
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παραμῡθ-ιον, τό,
address, exhortation, Pl. Lg. 773e, 880a (both pl.); encouragement, τοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθαι Id. Euthd. 272b.
2. assuagement, abatement of, καμάτων S. El. 130 (lyr.); πυρσῶν of the fires of love, Theoc. 23.7; ἐλπὶς κινδύνῳ π. οὖσα Th. 5.103; παραμύθια ποιήσασθαι τῆς ὁδοῦ Pl. Lg. 632e, cf. 704d; τοῖς γὰρ πλουσίοις πολλὰ π. φασιν εἶναι many consolations, Id. R. 329e, cf. Phdr. 240d, Phld. Mort. 19; λύπης παραμύθιον Epigr.Gr. 298.7 (Teos), cf. IG 3.768a.
3. παραμύθια πλησμονῆς stimulants of a sated appetite, Pl. Criti. 115b.
παραμύθιον, παραμυθου, τό, (παραμυθέομαι),persuasive address: Philippians 2:1. (consolation, Wis. 3:18 and often in Greek writings (from Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato on).)
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** παραμύθιον , -ου , τό
(<παραμυθέομαι ),
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 3:18*;]
1. an exhortation, persuasion, encouragement: Philippians 2:1 (cf. Plat., Legg., vi, 773 E, al.; v. Lft. and ICC, Phi., l.c.).
2. assuagement, abatement, hence, consolation (Wis, l.c., and freq. in cl.).†
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";cut off with an axe"; (Revelation 20:4) : cf. Polyb. i. 7. 12 μαστιγώσαντες ἅπαντας κατὰ τὸ παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἔθος ἐπελέκισαν, and the corr. verb πελεκόω in Apol. Arist. 13 πριζομένους καὶ πελεκουμένους. For πέλεκυς, ";axe"; (Lat. securis), cf. PSI V. 506.7 (A.D. 257–6) εἰς τὴν ξυλοκοπίαν πελέκεις δέκα, and for πελέκημα, ";chipped-stone,"; cf. P Oxy III. 498.23, .26 (ii/A.D.) See also Luckhard Privathaus, P. 33 f.
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