# G3870 παρακαλέω

παρακαλέω (parakaléō), Strong’s G3870: to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation) KJV: beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation)…

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*parakaléō* — 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

Built from [παρά pará](https://besorah.bible/word/G3844) (near) + [καλέω kaléō](https://besorah.bible/word/G2564) (to "call")

Occurs 235 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 2:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/2?v=18) — “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be…
- [Matthew 5:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/5?v=4) — Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- [Matthew 8:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=5) — When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him for help,
- [Matthew 8:31](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=31) — The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
- [Matthew 8:34](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/8?v=34) — Behold, all the city came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
- [Matthew 14:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/14?v=36) — and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.
- [Matthew 18:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=29) — “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’
- [Matthew 18:32](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/18?v=32) — Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
- [Matthew 26:53](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/26?v=53) — Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
- [Mark 1:40](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/1?v=40) — A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”