Quick Definition
I admonish, advise, exhort
Strong's Definition
to mispraise, i.e. recommend or advise (a different course)
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and G134 (αἰνέω);
KJV Usage: admonish, exhort
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραινέω, παραινῶ; imperfect 3 person singular παρῄνει; to exhort, admonish: with the addition of λέγων followed by direct discourse, Act_27:9; τινα (in classical Greek more commonly τίνι (Winers Grammar, 223 (209); Buttmann, § 133, 9)), followed by an infinitive Act_27:22 (Buttmann, §§ 140, 1; 141, 2). (From Herodotus and Pindar down; 2Ma_7:25 f; 3Ma_5:17.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραινέω paraineō 2x
to advise, exhort, Act_27:9 ; Act_27:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** παρ -αινέω , -ω ,
[in LXX : 2Ma_7:25-26 , 3Ma_5:17 ; 3Ma_7:12 * ;]
to exhort, advise: c . acc pers . et inf . ( v. Bl., § 72, 5; M , Pr., 205), Act_27:22 ; absol. , seq . λέγων , Act_27:9 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραινέω [page 484]
With the inf. construction of this verb, exhort, advise, as in Act_27:22 , cf. BGU III. 747 i. 10 (A.D. 139) στρατιώταις . . . παραινῶν πείθε [σθ ]αι τοῖς κελευομένοις , and see Proleg. p. 205. Cf. further BGU II. 372 ii. 4 (A.D. 154) ἵνα δὲ μὴ μόνον το [ύτ ]οις̣ ἀλλὰ [κ ]αὶ ἑτέ [ρ ]οις ταῦτά μ̣ε̣ π̣α̣ραινεῖν καὶ πράσσειν μ̣α̣θ̣ωσι , the late P Iand 16 .4 (v/vi A.D.) ὑμέτερον οὖν τῶν σ [υ ]μ̣β̣[ιωτῶν̣] ἐ̣σ̣τιν τὸ παραινέσαι τῷ σοφωτάτῳ ὑμῶν ἀδελφῷ [τ ]ο̣̣ δίκαιό [ν̣] μ̣ο̣υ̣ φ [υ̣λ̣]άξαι ἐν τῇ κρίσει , and Kaibel 261 .17 (ii/A.D.) τοῦτ᾽ Εὔοδος βροτοῖς πᾶσι παραινῶ . For the absol. use in Act_27:9 we may cite Syll 36 (= .3 89) .40 (B.C. 420) καθὰ παραινοσι Β [οττιαῖοι . The meaning encouragement usually given to παραίνεσις in Sap. 8:9 may perhaps be supported by Syll 256 (= .3 557) .33 (B.C. 207 6) διὰ τὴμ παρα [ίνεσιν τοῦ θε ]οῦ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παραινέω 3rd sg. imperf. παρῄνει ionic παραίνεε fut. -έσω and -έσομαι aor1 παρῄνεσα perf. παρῄνεκα Pass., perf. inf. παρῃνῆσθαι "to exhort, recommend, advise", π. τινὶ ποιεῖν τι Hdt. , Ar. , etc.; π. τί τινι Aesch. ; π. τινί "to advise" a person, id=Aesch. "to advise or recommend publicly", παρῄνει τοιάδε Thuc. ; οὐ π. "to advise" not to do, id=Thuc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρ-αινέω, -ω
[in LXX: 2Ma.7:25-26, 3Ma.5:17 3Mac 7:12 * ;]
to exhort, advise: with accusative of person(s) and inf. (see Bl., § 72, 5; M, Pr., 205), Act.27:22; absol., before λέγων, Act.27:9.†
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