Definition

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

Etymology

from G3844 (παρά) and G2564 (καλέω);

Where the KJV renders it

• beseech
• call for
• (be of good) comfort
• desire
• (give) exhort(-ation)
• intreat
• pray

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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