Word Summary
hygiēs: sound, whole, healthy
Original Word: ὑγιήςTransliteration: hygiēs
Phonetic Spelling: (hoog-ee-ace')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: sound, whole, healthy
Meaning: sound, whole, healthy
Strong's Concordance
sound, whole.
From the base of auzano; healthy, i.e. Well (in body); figuratively, true (in doctrine) -- sound, whole.
see GREEK auzano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5199: ὑγιήςὑγιής,
ὑγιες, accusative
ὑγιῆ (four times in the N. T.,
John 5:11, 15;
John 7:23;
Titus 2:8; for which
ὑγια is more common in Attic (cf.
Meisterhans, p. 66)), from
Homer down,
sound: properly (
A. V. whole), of a man who is sound in body,
Matthew 15:31 (
WH only in marginal reading, but
Tr brackets in marginal reading);
Acts 4:10;
γίνομαι,
John 5:4 (
R L), 6, 9, 14;
ποιεῖν τινα ὑγιῆ (
Herodotus,
Xenophon,
Plato, others),
to make one whole i. e. restore him to health,
John 5:11, 15;
John 7:23;
ὑγιής ἀπό etc.
sound and thus free from etc. (see
ἀπό, I. 3 d.),
Mark 5:34; of the members of the body,
Matthew 12:13;
Mark 3:5 Rec.;
Luke 6:10 Rec.; metaphorically,
λόγος ὑγιής (
A. V. sound speech) i. e. teaching which does not deviate from the truth (see
ὑγιαίνω),
Titus 2:8 (in the Greek writings, often equivalent to
wholesome, fit, wise:
μῦθος, II. 8, 524;
λόγος οὐκ ὑγιής,
Herodotus 1, 8; see other examples in
Passow, under the word, 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 and 3)).