Quick Definition
παραμυθία, ας, ἡ n.f. encouragement, comfort
Strong's Definition
from 3888; consolation (properly, abstract)
KJV Usage: comfort
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραμυθία, -as, 7, (παραμυθέομαι), in class. Grk. 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 Lat. allocutio (Sen. ad Mare. 1; ad Helv. 1), i. q. consolation, comfort: 1 Co. xiv. 3. (So Plat. Ax. p. 365 a.; Aeschin. dial. Socr. 3, 3; Joseph. b. 1. 3, 7,15; Lceian. dial. mort. 15, 3; Ael. v. h. 12, 1 fin.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραμυθία paramythia 1x
comfort, encouragement, 1 Cor. 14:3*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** παραμυθία, -ας, ἡ
(< παραμυθέομαι), [in LXX: Es 8:13, Wi 19:12*;]
encouragement, exhortation.
comfort, consolation: I Co 14:3.†
SYN.: παράκλησις.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραμυθία. in its only occurrence in the NT, 1 Cor 148 (cf. Sap 1912), refers to spiritual ‘‘encouragement”’ or ‘‘comfort.” J. Weiss ad 1. thinks that the idea may be derived from the tales which a mother or nurse relates toa child: cf. 1 Thess 24 and MGr παραμύθι, ‘‘fable,” ‘‘tale.” In the Christian P Oxy X. 1298? (iv/a.D.) the writer addresses his correspondent as—tapapv0(qa τῶν φίλων, ‘the consolation of his friends”: cf. P Thad 1717 (A.D. 332). In BGU IV. 1024%ii- 12. a long legal report of the end of iv/A.v., we read of an old woman who sold her daughier πορνοβοσκῷ ἵνα δυνηθῶ διατραφῆναι. The girl is murdered, and the mother demands that the murderer παρασχεῖν αὐτῇ eis λόγον διατροφῶν ὀλί[γ]ην τινὰ τοῦ βίου παραμυθίαν. The word seems to have developed into the ‘* comforts” of life, as with us—it is at any rate *‘consolation”’ that is suggested. in a money form Cf. the late use of the word=‘‘ gratuity” / παραπίπτω (Lat. so/atéum) in P Lond V. 1785° (vii/A.p.), and its technical use in monetary transactions, as illustrated in P Hamb 1. p. 128 nt.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παραμυθία (paramuthia) — comfort. παραμῡθ-ία, ἡ, encouragement, exhortation, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; reassurance, gentle persuasion, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. consolation, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; diversion, distraction, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. relief from, abatement of, φθόνου [Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. ταλαιπωρούντων, of sleep, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. explanation, solution of a difficulty, π. πρὸς τὴν ἀπορίαν [Refs 1st c.AD+]
5. excuse, ἔχειν τινὰ π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]