Strong's Number 3874
Transliteration:
paraklesis
{par-ak'-lay-sis}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
5:773,778
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
consolation 14, exhortation 8, comfort 6, intreaty 1
Total: 29
Definition:
- a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)
- importation, supplication, entreaty
- exhortation, admonition, encouragement
- consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment
- thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)
- persuasive discourse, stirring address
- instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse