'Encourage' in the Bible

Joshua, the son of Nun, {your assistant}, will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it.

Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself will cross [over] before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.'

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.

whom I have sent to you for this very [reason], that you may know {our circumstances}, and he may encourage your hearts.

whom I have sent to you for this very [reason], in order that you may know {our circumstances} and he may encourage your hearts,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith,

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.

encourage your hearts and strengthen [you] in every good work and word.

in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands [and to] love their children,

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother (as I consider [him]), I have written to you {briefly} to encourage [you] and to attest that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

Dear friends, [although I] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered [it] a necessity to write to you to encourage [you] to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.