ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΗΣΑΣΘΑΙ, παραμυθησασθαι
PARAMYTHĒSASTHAI, paramythēsasthai
Sounds Like: pa-ra-my-THAY-sas-thai
Translations: to comfort, to console, to encourage, to exhort, to cheer up
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to comfort, console, or encourage someone. It implies offering solace or support, often through words, to alleviate distress or sadness. It can also mean to exhort or urge someone to action, especially in a comforting or encouraging way. It is used to describe the act of providing emotional support or reassurance.
Inflection: Aorist, Middle Voice, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3888 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘ — comfort, encourage, console, exhort, cheer up
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΙΣΘΕ — comfort, encourage, console, exhort
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΙΤΑΙ — comforts, encourages, consoles, exhorts
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΟΜΑΙ — comfort, console, encourage, exhort, cheer up
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΗΣΩΝΤΑΙ — comfort, console, encourage, exhort
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΟΥΜΕΝΟΙ — comforting, consoling, encouraging, exhorting, those who comfort
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — comforting, encouraging, exhorting, consoling, speaking kindly to
- ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΟΥΜΕΝΟΣΤΗΝ — comforting the, encouraging the, consoling the, exhorting the
- ΠΑΡΕΜΥΘΕ — comforted, exhorted, encouraged, consoled
- ΠΑΡΕΜΥΘΕΙΤΟ — comforted, was comforting, encouraged, was encouraging, exhorted, was exhorting, consoled, was consoling
- ΠΑΡΕΜΥΘΗΣΑΤΟ — comforted, encouraged, exhorted, consoled
- ΠΑΡΕΜΥΘΟΥΜΗΝ — I was comforting, I was consoling, I was encouraging, I was exhorting
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