Strong G2322θεραπεία

service

Transliteration
therapeia
Pronunciation
ther-ap-i'-ah
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G2323; attendance (specifically medical that is cure); figuratively and collectively domestics: - healing household.

Detailed definition

θεραπεία, -ας, ἡ
(θεραπεύω) [in LXX for עֶבֶד Gen.45:16 (cf. Est.5:2), etc.;]
1. service.

2. healing: Luk.9:11 (Field, Notes, 60), Rev.22:2.

3. Collective, household attendants, servants: Luk.12:42 (LXX, ll. with).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2322 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • healing2
  • household2

First verses

  1. Matthew 24:45
    Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
  2. Luke 9:11
    And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
  3. Luke 12:42
    And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
  4. Revelation 22:2
    In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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θερᾰπ-εία,
Ionic dialect θερᾰπ-ηΐη (θερᾰπ-είη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 80, +others))], ἡ, service, attendance:
I of persons, θ. τῶν θεῶν service paid to the gods, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 13d, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 744 (Lyric poetry); θεῶν καὶ ἡρώων θεραπεῖαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 427b, etc.; ἡ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς θ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.24)]; ἀγυιάτιδες θ. worship of Apollo Agyieus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 187; τὴν θ. ἀποδιδόναι τοῖς θεοῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1329a32; θ. τῆς μήνιδος 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.159b: _absolutely_, πᾶσαν θ. ὡς ἰσόθεος θεραπευόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 255a, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.4)]; of parents, γονέων θεραπείας καὶ τιμάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 886c, compare 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 6 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)]; of children, nurture, care, μικροὺς παῖδας θεραπείας δεομένους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.45; θ. καὶ ἐσθής 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.4)]; θ. σώματος, ψυχῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464b, “La.” 185e.)]
I.2 service done to gain favour, paying court, θ. τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ προεστώτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11; ἐν θεραπείᾳ ἔχειν πολλῇ [prev. author] 1.55; πάσῃ θεραπείᾳ θεραπεύειν τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.14; θεραπείαις προσαγαγέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.22; τῇ θ. ψυχαγωγούμενος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.55.)]
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+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 354a)]; ἡ ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων θ. treatment secundum artem, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287a40, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.400, etc.; τῶν καμνόντων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 345a, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.51, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.21 W.; τοῦ σώματος [prev. author] “Lib.” p.19 O., “Vita Philonidis Epicurei” p.9 C.)]; healing, θεραπείας ἐπιτυχών [Refs (“Sammelb.” 1537b)]: in plural, cures, ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ -είας [Refs (“POxy.” 1r. 13.)]
III of animals, care, tendance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 13a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 578a7 (_plural_).)]
III.2 of plants, cultivation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 149e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.2.12.)]
III.3 maintenance or repairs of temples, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1106.49 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC), 1102.8 (2nd c.BC).)]
III.4 preparation of fat for medical use, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.76.)]
IV in collective sense, body of attendants, retinue, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199, 5.21, 7.184, LXX.Gen.45.16; σὺν ἱππικῇ θ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.1; ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς θ. τεταγμένος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.87.5.)]