Paramytheomai means “comfort” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3888 — lush (“knead”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3888 παραμυθέομαι (paramutheomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paramutheomai (par-am-oo-theh'-om-ai) v. 1. to relate near 2. (by implication) to console, encourage It has 5 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include comfort and comforted. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paramutheomai (par-am-oo-theh'-om-ai) v. 1. to relate near 2. (by implication) to console, encourage [from G3844 and the middle voice of a derivative of G3454] KJV: comfort Root(s): G3844, G3454
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3888. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to encourage
Usage: παρα-μυθέομαι, -οῦμαι [in LXX: 2Ma.15:9 (Sm. 8)* ;] __1. to encourage, exhort. __2. to comfort, console: with accusative of person(s), Jhn.11:31, 1Th.2:11 5:14; id. before περί, Jhn.11:19.† SYN.: παρακαλέω (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paramutheomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3888 (παραμυθέομαι) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3888.
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3888, grouped by book.
Paramytheomai (Strong's G3888) is a Greek word most simply glossed "comfort". paramutheomai (par-am-oo-theh'-om-ai) v. 1. to relate near 2. (by implication) to console, encourage
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G3888 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3888 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as comfort and comforted. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3888, with linked reader references where each row is available.