noun · feminine
parēgorias
Strong’sG3931
solace, consolation
stem parēgori-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** παρηγορία, -ας, ἡ
(< παρηγορέω, to address, exhort, console), [in LXX: IV Mac 5:12 6:1*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3931 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, exhortation, persuasion, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἴση παρηγορία, ={ἰσηγορία}, Refs 4th c.AD+
2 surname, Refs 1st c.AD+
II consolation, τοῦ πένθους Refs 1st c.AD+; υἱοῖο for his loss, Refs; ὁδευόντων π., of the moon, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 assuagement, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | parēgorias1×παρηγορία | parēgoriais |
| object accusative | parēgorian | parēgoriain |
| direct address vocative | parēgoriar | parēgoriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | parēgoriau | parēgoriaiu |
| to, for dative | parēgoria | parēgoriai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
parēgoria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
parēgorias“comfort”subjectnominative singular1×
Colossians 4:11… basileian tou theou, hotinois genila mi parēgorias.… God, and they have been a comfort to me.