STRONGS NUMBER G3809

Original Word: παιδεία
Transliteration: paideia
Phonetic Spelling: (pahee-di'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: the rearing of a child, training, discipline
Meaning: the rearing of a child, training, disciplinechastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.

From paideuo; tutorage, i.e. Education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction -- chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.

see GREEK paideuo

STRONGS NT 3809: παιδεία

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), 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