Words the Bible translates as encourage
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- parakaleōπαρακαλέωto call someone to one's side: to appeal to, urge, comfort, or invite a person, depending on why they are called near
- protrepōπροτρέπωto encouragenot studied yet
- paramutheomaiπαραμυθέομαιto encouragenot studied yet
- lavavלָבַבto act on the heart: to seize hold of someone's inner self, or to gain such an inner self where there was none
+1 more meaning
- to make heart cakes: to prepare by hand the small dish of dough, named after the word for heart, that was fed to a man on his sickbed
- sumparakaleōσυμπαρακαλέωto encouragenot studied yet
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