The words and are both translated ‘to comfort,’ but there is a difference between them. The latter word (from and , ‘a word, speech’) in the four places in which it occurs (Joh 11:19; Joh 11:31; 1Th 2:11; 1Th 5:14) is translated ‘comfort’ in the A.V., and seems to be expressive of more tenderness than the former<\/p>\n
(, ‘to call’), which it is difficult to render in any uniform way, is calling upon a person in order to stimulate him to something, it may be to comfort; but it often refers to other things – to exhortation in general, as in Rom 12:8; Tit 2:15; and in some passages may well be translated ‘encourage,’ as in Heb 3:13, “Encourage one another daily,” also in Heb 10:25. See 2Co 1:3-7 where the word, with the substantive formed from it, occurs several times with a more active force than ‘comfort.’ In Act 4:36 the name Barnabas, , should probably be ‘son of exhortation’ rather than ‘of consolation.’<\/p>\n
An interesting instance of the two words occurring together is found in 1Th 2:11, we are “exhorted (.) and comforted (.)”<\/p>\n
24. TO COMFORT, ENCOURAGE The words and are both translated ‘to comfort,’ but there is a difference between them. The latter word (from and , ‘a word, speech’) in the four places in which it occurs (Joh 11:19; Joh 11:31; 1Th 2:11; 1Th 5:14) is translated ‘comfort’ in the A.V., and seems to be expressive … Continue reading “24. TO COMFORT, ENCOURAGE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}