Lexicon paideia: the rearing of a child, training, discipline Original Word: παιδεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paideia Phonetic Spelling: (pahee-di'-ah) Short Definition: discipline Definition: discipline; training and education of children, hence: instruction; chastisement, correction. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3809 paideía (from 3811 /paideúō, see there) – properly, instruction that trains someone to reach full development (maturity). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom paideuóDefinitionthe rearing of a child, training, discipline NASB Translationdiscipline (5), training (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3809: παιδείαπαιδεία ( Tdf. παιδία; (see Iota)), παιδείας, ἡ, ( παιδεύω), the Sept. for מוּסָר; 1. the whole training and education of children (which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals, and employs for this purpose now commands and admonitions, now reproof and punishment): Ephesians 6:4 (cf. Winers Grammar, 388 (363) note); (in Greek writings from Aeschylus on, it includes also the care and training of the body.) (See especially Trench, Synonyms, § xxxii.; cf. Jowett's Plato, index under the word Education). 2. "whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, especially by correcting mistakes and curbing the passions "; hence, a. instruction which aims at the increase of virtue: 2 Timothy 3:16. b. according to Biblical usage chastisement, chastening (of the evils with which God visits men for their amendment): Hebrews 12:5 (Proverbs 3:11), f (see ὑπομένω, 2 b.), ; (Proverbs 15:5, and often in the O. T.; cf. Grimm, Exgt. Hdbch. on Sap., p. 51; (cf. (Plato) definition παιδεία. δύναμις θεραπευτικη
Strong's chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture. From paideuo; tutorage, i.e. Education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction -- chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture. see GREEK paideuo |
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