noun · feminine
therapeias
Strong’sG2322
care, attention, healing
stem therapei-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
θεραπεία, -ας, ἡ
(θεραπεύω), [in LXX for עֲבָדִים, Ge 45:16 (cf. Es 5:2), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2322 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidther-ap-i'-ah
attendance (specially, medical, i.e. cure); figuratively and collectively, domestics
Fromfrom G2323;
King Jameshealing, household.
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
Ionic dialect θερᾰπ-ηΐη (θερᾰπ-είη Refs 5th c.BC+, ἡ, service, attendance:
I of persons, θ. τῶν θεῶν service paid to the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀγυιάτιδες θ. worship of Apollo Agyieus, Refs 5th c.BC+; of parents, γονέων θεραπείας καὶ τιμάς Refs 5th c.BC+; of children, nurture, care, μικροὺς παῖδας θεραπείας δεομένους Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. σώματος, ψυχῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 service done to gain favour, paying court, θ. τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ προεστώτων Refs 5th c.BC+
II medical or surgical treatment or cure, χειρός, ποδός, Hp.[same place]; αἱ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θ. αἱ διὰ καύσεων γιγνόμεναι cures by cautery, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων θ. treatment secundum artem, Refs 5th c.BC+; healing, θεραπείας ἐπιτυχών Refs: in plural, cures, ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ -είας Refs
III of animals, care, tendance, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 of plants, cultivation, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 maintenance or repairs of temples, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.4 preparation of fat for medical use, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV in collective sense, body of attendants, retinue, LXX+5th c.BC+
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 | therapeias | therapeiais |
| object accusative | therapeian1×θεραπείαν | therapeiain |
| direct address vocative | therapeiar | therapeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | therapeiau2×θεραπείας | therapeiaiu |
| to, for dative | therapeia | therapeiai |
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
therapeia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
therapeian“healing”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 22:2… kai teim fulleim teu xuleu eis therapeian teiu ethneiu.… of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
therapeiau“healing”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 9:11… tou theou, kai toin chreian echarōntoin therapeiau iote.… and He healed those who needed healing.
Luke 12:42… hon katastēati tos kurios epi tau therapeiau autou teu dōarō en kairo tem …… master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at …