Strong's Number 3874

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
paraklesis {par-ak'-lay-sis}
Word Origin:
from 3870
TDNT:
5:773,778
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
consolation 14, exhortation 8, comfort 6, intreaty 1

Total: 29
Definition:
  1. a calling near, summons, (esp. for help)
  2. importation, supplication, entreaty
  3. exhortation, admonition, encouragement
  4. consolation, comfort, solace; that which affords comfort or refreshment
    1. thus of the Messianic salvation (so the Rabbis call the Messiah the consoler, the comforter)
  5. persuasive discourse, stirring address
    1. instructive, admonitory, conciliatory, powerful hortatory discourse
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament