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γυμνασία

exercise

‘exercise’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1129 Strong's Greek
gymnasía Transliteration
/goom-nas-ee'-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

γυμνασια (gymnasía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “exercise.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. 1 Timothy dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Timothy 4:8. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
exercise
Modern gloss
exercise
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1129 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
1 Timothy 4:8
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in 1 Timothy 4:8.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Exercise 1×
  • American Standard Version: Exercise 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Exercise 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Training 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1129 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Exercise” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1129 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Exercise” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1129 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Exercise” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1129 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Training” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. the exercise of the body in a palaestra or school of athletics
  2. any exercise whatever

Word origin

Derived from γυμναζω (gymnázō) (G1128) — to exercise.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 13:55,1

From G1128 ; training that is (figuratively) asceticism : - exercise.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.

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