Quick Definition
I stir up, incite
Strong's Definition
to urge along, i.e. stimulate (to hostility)
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and (to spur);
KJV Usage: stir up
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παροτρύνω: 1 aorist παρωτρυνα; (ὀτρύνω to stir up (cf. παρά, IV. 3)); to incite, stir up: τινα, Act_13:50. (Pindar Ol. 3, 68; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 6, 1; Lucian, deor. concil 4.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παροτρύνω parotrynō 1x
to stir up, incite, instigate, Act_13:50
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*παρ -οτρύνω ,
to urge on, stir up: c . acc pers ., Act_13:50 (find., Hipp ., and late writers).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παροτρύνω [page 496]
urge on, which is confined to Act_13:50 in Biblical Greek, is cited by Hobart p. 225 for its medical associations, but it is by no means uncommon in a more general sense in late Greek, e.g. Jos. Antt. VII. 118 (vi. 1) παρώτρυναν τὸν βασιλέα λέγοντες κατασκόπους πεπομφέναι . . . .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παροτρύνω fut. υ^νῶ "to urge" one "on" to do a thing, Pind.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρ-οτρύνω
to urge on, stir up: with accusative of person(s), Act.13:50 (find., Hipp., and late writers).†
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