G3870: παρακαλέω
parakaléō · “to plead/comfort”
Definition
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
KJV translates it as: beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray
Extended definition
[in LXX chiefly for נחם ni., pi. ;]
1. to call to one, call for, summon: Act.28:20 (R, mg.; R, txt., entreat); hence (of the gods: Dem., Xen., al.), to invoke, call on, beseech, entreat: τ. πατέρα μου, Mat.26:53; τ. κύριον, 2Co.12:8; in late writers (Polyb., Diod., al.; rarely in LXX; in π., see Deiss., LAE, 176.14), also of men: absol., Phm 9; with accusative, Mat.8:5, Mrk.1:40, Act.16:9, al.; with inf., Mrk.5:17, Luk.8:41, Act.8:31, al.; before ἵνα (see M, Pr., 205, 208), Mt 14"36, Mrk.5:18, Luk.8:31, al.
2. to admonish, exhort: absol., Luk.3:18, Rom.12:8, 2Ti.4:2, al.; with accusative, Act.15:32, 1Th.2:11, Heb.3:13, al.; id. before inf., Act.11:23, Rom.12:1, Php.4:2, 1Th.4:10, al.; before ἵνα (see M, Pr., l.with), 1Co.1:10, 2Co.8:6, 1Th.4:1, al.
3. to cheer, encourage, comfort (Plut., LXX: Jb 43, Isa.35:3, Sir.43:24, al.): with accusative, 2Co.1:6, Eph.6:22, Col.2:2, al.; id. before ἐν, 1Th.4:18; διά, 2Co.1:4; pass., Mat.5:4, Luk.16:25, Act.20:12.
SYN.: παραμυθέω (cf. M, Th., 25). (AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3870 is translated
- i exhort ×14
- were begging ×4
- they were begging ×4
- exhorting ×4
- we exhort ×4
- he was begging ×3
- do encourage ×3
- imploring ×2
- was begging ×2
- they begged ×2
- they implore ×2
- exhort ×2
Bible verses with G3870 (parakaléō)
Parakaléō appears in 104 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Matthew 2:18
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
- Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
- Matthew 8:5
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
- Matthew 8:31
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
- Matthew 8:34
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
- Matthew 14:36
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
- Matthew 18:29
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
- Matthew 18:32
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
- Matthew 26:53
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
- Mark 1:40
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
- Mark 5:10
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
- Mark 5:12
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- Mark 5:17
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
- Mark 5:18
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
- Mark 5:23
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
- Mark 6:56
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
- Mark 7:32
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
- Mark 8:22
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
- Luke 3:18
And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
- Luke 7:4
And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
- Luke 8:31
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
- Luke 8:32
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
- Luke 8:41
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
- Luke 15:28
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
- Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
All 104 references
- Acts 2:40
- Acts 8:31
- Acts 9:38
- Acts 11:23
- Acts 13:42
- Acts 14:22
- Acts 15:32
- Acts 16:9
- Acts 16:15
- Acts 16:39
- Acts 16:40
- Acts 19:31
- Acts 20:1
- Acts 20:2
- Acts 20:12
- Acts 21:12
- Acts 24:4
- Acts 25:2
- Acts 27:33
- Acts 27:34
- Acts 28:14
- Acts 28:20
- Romans 12:1
- Romans 12:8
- Romans 15:30
- Romans 16:17
- 1 Corinthians 1:10
- 1 Corinthians 4:13
- 1 Corinthians 4:16
- 1 Corinthians 14:31
- 1 Corinthians 16:12
- 1 Corinthians 16:15
- 2 Corinthians 1:4
- 2 Corinthians 1:6
- 2 Corinthians 2:7
- 2 Corinthians 2:8
- 2 Corinthians 5:20
- 2 Corinthians 6:1
- 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 2 Corinthians 7:7
- 2 Corinthians 7:13
- 2 Corinthians 8:6
- 2 Corinthians 9:5
- 2 Corinthians 10:1
- 2 Corinthians 12:8
- 2 Corinthians 12:18
- 2 Corinthians 13:11
- Ephesians 4:1
- Ephesians 6:22
- Philippians 4:2
- Colossians 2:2
- Colossians 4:8
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2
- 1 Thessalonians 3:7
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1
- 1 Thessalonians 4:10
- 1 Thessalonians 4:18
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
- 1 Thessalonians 5:14
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12
- 1 Timothy 1:3
- 1 Timothy 2:1
- 1 Timothy 5:1
- 1 Timothy 6:2
- 2 Timothy 4:2
- Titus 1:9
- Titus 2:6
- Titus 2:15
- Philemon 1:9
- Philemon 1:10
- Hebrews 3:13
- Hebrews 10:25
- Hebrews 13:19
- Hebrews 13:22
- 1 Peter 2:11
- 1 Peter 5:1
- 1 Peter 5:12
- Jude 1:3