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Lexicon :: Strong's G3809 - paideia

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παιδεία
Transliteration
paideia (Key)
Pronunciation
pahee-di'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:596,753

Trench's Synonyms: xxxii. παιδεία, νουθεσία.

Strong’s Definitions

παιδεία paideía, pahee-di'-ah; from G3811; tutorage, i.e. education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction:—chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G3809 in the following manner: chastening (3x), nurture (1x), instruction (1x), chastisement (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G3809 in the following manner: chastening (3x), nurture (1x), instruction (1x), chastisement (1x).

  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) It also includes the training and care of the body

  2. whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, esp. by correcting mistakes and curbing passions.

    1. instruction which aims at increasing virtue

    2. chastisement, chastening, (of the evils with which God visits men for their amendment)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παιδεία paideía, pahee-di'-ah; from G3811; tutorage, i.e. education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction:—chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.
STRONGS G3809:
παιδεία (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), Hebrews 12:7f (see ὑπομένω, 2 b.), Hebrews 12:11; (Proverbs 15:5, and often in the O. T.; cf. Grimm, Exgt. Hdbch. on Sap., p. 51; (cf. (Plato) definition παιδεία. δύναμις θεραπευτικη
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
3:11; 15:5
Ephesians
6:4
2 Timothy
3:16
Hebrews
12:5; 12:7; 12:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3809 matches the Greek παιδεία (paideia),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:4 - Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:16 - All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:5 - And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:7 - It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:8 - If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:11 - For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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