Strong's Concordance
paraggelia: an instruction, a command
Original Word: παραγγελία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: paraggelia
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ang-gel-ee'-ah)
Short Definition: a command, charge
Definition: a command, charge, injunction; a precept, rule of living.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 3852 paraggelía – a command, literally "something announced from close-beside" and therefore fully authorized. 3852 /paraggelía ("fully authorized command") is preeminently used of the Lord – the one who owns all things.
Christ speaks His rhēma-word into the believer – giving a command (3852 /paraggelía) that passes on His preferred-will (cf. Ro 10:17, Gk text and 2307 /thélēma). Accordingly, 3852 (paraggelía) and faith (4102 /pístis, "God's inworked persuasions") are directly connected. See 3853 (parangéllō).
1 Tim 1:5: "But the goal of our instruction (3852 /paraggelía) is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith (4102 /pístis)" (NASU).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3852: παραγγελίαπαραγγελία,
παραγγελίας,
ἡ (
παραγγέλλω), properly,
announcement, a proclaiming or giving a message to; hence,
a charge, command:
Acts 16:24; a prohibition,
Acts 5:28; used of the Christian doctrine relative to right living,
1 Timothy 1:5; of particular directions relative to the same, 18; plural in
1 Thessalonians 4:2. (Of a military order in
Xenophon,
Polybius; of instruction,
Aristotle, eth. Nic. 2, 2, p. 1104{a}, 7;
Diodorus except p. 512, 19 (i. e. fragment book 26:1, 1).)
