parrhēsia · boldness, openness

What it means

parrhēsia (παῤῥησία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “boldness, openness”.

Frankness; speaking openly and with courage.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Speaking or coming to God without fear.
2. In front of all, without hedging.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• boldness ×14
• openly ×6
• confidence ×5
• plainly ×4
• frankness ×1
• public ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• John×9
• Acts×5
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×2
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×4
• 1 John×4

• Mark 8:32

  And he was speaking the word openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

• John 7:4

  For no one does anything in secret and himself seeks to be in public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

• John 7:13

  Yet no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

• John 7:26

  And look, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers have really come to know that this is the Messiah?

• John 10:24

  So the Jews gathered around him and were saying to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

• John 11:14

  So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

• John 11:54

  So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

• John 16:25

  I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

• John 16:29

  His disciples say, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not using any figure of speech!

• John 18:20

  Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret.

• Acts 2:29

  Brothers, it is permitted to speak to you with frankness about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

• Acts 4:13

  Now seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and realizing that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed; and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.

• Acts 4:29

  And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to your slaves to speak your word with all boldness,

• Acts 4:31

  And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and all were filled with the Holy Spirit and were speaking the word of God with boldness.

• Acts 28:31

  proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things about the Lord Jesus the Messiah with all boldness, unhindered.

• 2 Corinthians 3:12

  Therefore having such a hope, we act with great boldness,

• 2 Corinthians 7:4

  Great is my boldness toward you, great is my boasting about you; I am filled with comfort, I am overflowing beyond measure with joy in all our affliction.

• Ephesians 3:12

  in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him.

• Ephesians 6:19

  and for me, that a word may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the good news,

• Philippians 1:20

  according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be put to shame in nothing, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also the Messiah will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

• Colossians 2:15

  Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he exposed them openly, triumphing over them in it.

• 1 Timothy 3:13

  For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great confidence in the faith that is in the Messiah Jesus.

• Philemon 1:8

  Therefore, though I have much boldness in the Messiah to command you what is fitting,

• Hebrews 3:6

  but the Messiah was faithful as a Son over his house; and that house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the boast of our hope.

• Hebrews 4:16

  Let us draw near, then, with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.

• Hebrews 10:19

  Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness for the entrance into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

• Hebrews 10:35

  So do not throw away your boldness, which has a great recompense.

• 1 John 2:28

  And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not shrink away in shame from him at his coming.

• 1 John 3:21

  Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

• 1 John 4:17

  By this, love has been brought to completion with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.

• 1 John 5:14

  And this is the confidence that we have toward him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.