{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3870",
  "lemma": "παρακαλέω",
  "transliteration": "parakaléō",
  "definition": "to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)",
  "kjv": "beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray",
  "occurrences": 235,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G3844",
      "lemma": "παρά",
      "transliteration": "pará",
      "meaning": "near",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G3844"
    },
    {
      "id": "G2564",
      "lemma": "καλέω",
      "transliteration": "kaléō",
      "meaning": "to \"call\"",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G2564"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 2:18",
      "text": "“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 5:4",
      "text": "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/5?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 8:5",
      "text": "When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 8:31",
      "text": "The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 8:34",
      "text": "Behold, all the city came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 14:36",
      "text": "and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/14?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 18:29",
      "text": "“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 18:32",
      "text": "Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 26:53",
      "text": "Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/26?v=53"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 1:40",
      "text": "A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/1?v=40"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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}