noun · feminine
gumnasias
Strong’sG1129
physical exercise
stem gumnasi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** γυμνασία, -ας, ἡ
(< γυμνάζω), [in LXX: IV Mac 11:20 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1129 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgoom-nas-ee'-ah
training, i.e. (figuratively) asceticism
Fromfrom G1128;
King Jamesexercise.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
right to use γυμνάσιον, Refs 4th c.BC+; exercise, σωματικὴ γ. NT+2nd c.AD+; of military exercises, ἡ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις γ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; generally, struggle, Refs 1st c.BC+lessons, Refs 1st c.BC+: metaphorically of mental exercise, Refs 4th c.AD+; frequently of disputation, Refs 5th c.BC+; training, γ. πρὸς τὰς πολιτικὰς πράξεις Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 Rhet., practice: hence, arrangement, disposition, τοῦ διηγήματος Theo Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gumnasias1×γυμνασία | gumnasiais |
| object accusative | gumnasian | gumnasiain |
| direct address vocative | gumnasiar | gumnasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | gumnasiau | gumnasiaiu |
| to, for dative | gumnasia | gumnasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gumnasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
gumnasias“training”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Timothy 4:8“training”tas gar sōmatikas gumnasias pros oligon atō ōfelimas, tas de …… physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life …