STRONGS G3889:
													
												
									    		παραμυθία, 
παραμυθιας, 
ἡ (
παραμυθέομαι), in classical Greek 
any address, whether made 
for the purpose of persuading, or 
of arousing and stimulating, or 
of calming and consoling; once in the N. T., like the Latin
allocutio (
Seneca, ad Marc. 1; ad Helv. 1), equivalent to 
consolation, comfort: 
1 Corinthians 14:3. (So 
Plato, Ax., p. 365 a.; 
Aeschines dial. 
Socrates 3, 3; 
Josephus, 
b. j. 3, 7, 15; 
Lucian, dial. mort. 15, 3; 
Aelian v. h. 12, 1 at the end.) 
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