STRONGS NUMBER G2322


Word Summary
therapeia: attention, medical service
Original Word: θεραπεία
Transliteration: therapeia
Phonetic Spelling: (ther-ap-i'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: attention, medical service
Meaning: attention, medical service
Strong's Concordance
healing, household.

From therapeuo; attendance (specially, medical, i.e. Cure); figuratively and collectively, domestics -- healing, household.

see GREEK therapeuo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2322: θεραπεία

θεραπεία, θεραπείας, (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).