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 Latinallocutio (Seneca, ad Marc. 1; ad Helv. 1), equivalent to consolation, comfort: 1Co_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.)

παραμυθία paramythia 1x comfort, encouragement, 1Co_14:3

** παραμυθία , -ας , ἡ ( < παραμυθέομαι ), [in LXX : Ezr_8:13 , Wis_19:12 * ;] 1. encouragement, exhortation . 2. comfort, consolation: 1Co_14:3 .† SYN.: παράκλησις G3874 .

παραμυθία [page 488] παραμυθία in its only occurrence in the NT, 1Co_14:3 (cf. Sap 19 .12 ), refers to spiritual encouragement or comfort. J. Weiss ad l. thinks that the idea may be derived from the tales which a mother or nurse relates to a child : cf. 1Th_2:11 and MGr παραμύθι , fable, tale. In the Christian P Oxy X. 1298 .2 (iv/A.D.) the writer addresses his correspondent as παραμυθίᾳ τῶν φίλων , the consolation of his friends : cf. P Thead 17 .17 (A.D. 332). In BGU IV. 1024 vii. 12 ff. , a long legal report of the end of iv/A.D., we read of an old woman who sold her daughter πορνοβοσκῷ , ἵνα δυνηθῶ διατραφῆναι . The girl is murdered, and the mother demands that the murderer πα̣ρ̣α̣σ̣χεῖν α̣ὐτῇ εἰς λόγον δ̣ι̣α̣τροφῶν ὁ̣̓λ̣ι̣[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 in a money form that is suggested. Cf. the late use of the word = gratuity (Lat. solatium ) in P Lond V. 1785 .5 (vii/A.D.), and its technical use in monetary transactions, as illustrated in P Hamb I. p. 128 n .1 .

παραμυθία παραμυ_θία, ἡ, [Etym: from παραμυ_θέομαι] "encouragement, exhortation, persuasion", Plat. "consolation, diversion", id=Plat. "relief from, abatement of", φθόνου Plut.

παραμυθία, -ας, ἡ (παραμυθέομαι) [in LXX: Est.8:13, Wis.19:12 * ;] __1. encouragement, exhortation. __2. comfort, consolation: 1Co.14:3 .† SYN.: παράκλησις (AS)