παρακαλέω

parakaléō · Greek · Strong's G3870 · 108 occurrences

The KJV renders 36 different Hebrew and Greek words as “desire”

What it means

to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)

from G3844 (παρά) and G2564 (καλέω);

How the KJV renders it

beseech, call for, comfort, desire, exhort, intreat, pray

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“desire”

also renders eudokía (G2107), zētéō (G2212), aitéō (G154), epithymía (G1939), orégomai (G3713), axióō (G515), epizētéō (G1934), thélō (G2309), zēlóō (G2206), thélēma (G2307), erōtáō (G2065), epithyméō (G1937), epipothéō (G1971), exaitéomai (G1809), eperōtáō (G1905), ʼâbeh (H15), ʼâvâh (H183), ʼavvâh (H185), bᵉʻâʼ (H1156), châmad (H2530), chemdâh (H2532), châphêts (H2654), châphêts (H2655), chêphets (H2656), châshaq (H2836), chêsheq (H2837), kâçaph (H3700), maʼăvay (H3970), machmâd (H4261), mishʼâlâh (H4862), nephesh (H5315), râtsôwn (H7522), taʼăvâh (H8378), tâv (H8420), tᵉshûwqâh (H8669)

“comfort”

also renders paramythéomai (G3888), paramythía (G3889), paráklēsis (G3874), parēgoría (G3931), paramýthion (G3890), nichûwm (H5150), nechâmâh (H5165), çâʻad (H5582), râphad (H7502), tanchûwm (H8575)

“pray”

also renders déomai (G1189), erōtáō (G2065), eúchomai (G2172), bᵉʻâʼ (H1156), chânan (H2603), tsᵉlâʼ (H6739), sîyach (H7878)

“beseech”

also renders déomai (G1189), erōtáō (G2065), châlâh (H2470), chânan (H2603)

“call for”

also renders aitéō (G154), metapémpō (G3343), proskaléomai (G4341), metakaléō (G3333)

“intreat”

also renders erōtáō (G2065), paraitéomai (G3868), châlâh (H2470), chânan (H2603)

“exhort”

also renders parainéō (G3867), protrépomai (G4389)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

108 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Corinthians 1:10 · V-PAI-1S

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 4:13 · V-PAI-1P

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

1 Corinthians 4:16 · V-PAI-1S

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

1 Corinthians 14:31 · V-PPS-3P

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted.

1 Corinthians 16:12 · V-AAI-1S

Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

1 Corinthians 16:15 · V-PAI-1S

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

1 Peter 2:11 V-PAI-1S1 Peter 5:1 V-PAI-1S1 Peter 5:12 V-PAP-NSM1 Thessalonians 2:11 V-PAP-NPM1 Thessalonians 3:2 V-AAN1 Thessalonians 3:7 V-API-1P1 Thessalonians 4:1 V-PAI-1P1 Thessalonians 4:10 V-PAI-1P1 Thessalonians 4:18 V-PAM-2P1 Thessalonians 5:11 V-PAM-2P1 Thessalonians 5:14 V-PAI-1P1 Timothy 1:3 V-AAI-1S1 Timothy 2:1 V-PAI-1S1 Timothy 5:1 V-PAM-2S1 Timothy 6:2 V-PAM-2S2 Corinthians 1:4 V-PAN2 Corinthians 1:6 V-PPI-1P2 Corinthians 2:7 V-AAN2 Corinthians 2:8 V-PAI-1S2 Corinthians 5:20 V-PAP-GSM2 Corinthians 6:1 V-PAI-1P2 Corinthians 7:6 V-AAI-3S2 Corinthians 7:7 V-API-3S2 Corinthians 7:13 V-RPI-1P2 Corinthians 8:6 V-AAN2 Corinthians 9:5 V-AAN2 Corinthians 10:1 V-PAI-1S2 Corinthians 12:8 V-AAI-1S2 Corinthians 12:18 V-AAI-1S2 Corinthians 13:11 V-PPM-2P2 Thessalonians 2:17 V-AAO-3S2 Thessalonians 3:12 V-PAI-1P2 Timothy 4:2 V-AAM-2SActs 2:40 V-IAI-3SActs 8:31 V-AAI-3SActs 9:38 V-PAP-NPMActs 11:23 V-IAI-3SActs 13:42 V-IAI-3PActs 14:22 V-PAP-NPMActs 15:32 V-AAI-3PActs 16:9 V-PAP-NSMActs 16:15 V-AAI-3SActs 16:39 V-AAI-3PActs 16:40 V-AAI-3PActs 19:31 V-IAI-3PActs 20:1 V-AAP-NSMActs 20:2 V-AAP-NSMActs 20:12 V-API-3PActs 21:12 V-IAI-1PActs 24:4 V-PAI-1SActs 25:2 V-IAI-3PActs 27:33 V-IAI-3SActs 27:34 V-PAI-1SActs 28:14 V-API-1P

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