Lexicon therapeia: attention, medical service Original Word: θεραπεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: therapeia Phonetic Spelling: (ther-ap-i'-ah) Short Definition: care, attention, healing Definition: care, attention, especially medical attention (treatment); hence almost: healing; meton: those who render service. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2322 therapeía – healing, focusing on the reversal of the physical condition (illness, disease) itself carrying the responsibility of fully serving the Lord through it. See 2323 (therapeuō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom therapeuóDefinitionattention, medical service NASB Translationhealing (2), servants (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2322: θεραπείαθεραπεία, θεραπείας, ἡ ( θεραπεύω); 1. service, rendered by anyone to another. 2. special medical service, curing, healing: Luke 9:11; Revelation 22:2, ((Hippocrates), Plato, Isocrates, Polybius). 3. by metonymy, household, i. e. body of attendants, servants, domestics: Matthew 24:45 R G; Luke 12:42 (and often so in Greek writings; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 469; for עֲבָדִים, Genesis 45:16).
Strong's healing, household. From therapeuo; attendance (specially, medical, i.e. Cure); figuratively and collectively, domestics -- healing, household. see GREEK therapeuo |
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