θεραπεύω
to heal
‘to heal’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
5 verses where G2323 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 4:23 θεράπευσον aor act impv 2sg He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"
- Luke 7:21 ἐθεράπευσεν aor act ind 3sg In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
- Luke 8:43 θεραπευθῆναι aor pass inf A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
- Luke 13:14 ἐθεράπευσεν θεραπεύεσθε aor act ind 3sg pres pass impv 2pl The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
- Luke 14:3 θεραπεῦσαι aor act inf Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
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.
The Greek verb θεραπευω centers on the idea of “to heal.” Debuting at Matthew 4:23, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 42 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (38%), then Luke and Mark. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2323 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 →
- 42
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 42 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #347
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 347 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 42 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 42 distinct verses.
- Gospels 35 verses · 83%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 18 verses · 43%
- Johannine 3 verses · 7%
- Revelation 2 verses · 5%
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: He healed 8×, Heal 8×, Healed 5×
- American Standard Version: He healed 7×, Heal 7×, Healed 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Heal 10×, He healed 8×, Healed 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He healed 10×, Heal 7×, Healed 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2323 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2323 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2323 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2323 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- to serve, do service
- to heal, cure, restore to health
Word origin
Derived from θεραπων (therápōn) (G2324) — attendant.
From the same as G2324 ; to wait upon menially that is (figuratively) to adore (God) or (specifically) to relieve (of disease): - cure heal worship.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 21 distinct written forms G2323 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2323, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θεραπευω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 19:25 θεραπεύω
- 2 Kings 9:16 θεραπεύω
- Esther 2:19 θεραπεύω
- Proverbs 14:19 θεραπεύω
- Isaiah 54:17 θεραπεύω
- Daniel 7:10 θεραπεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2323) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 19:25 θεραπεύω It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?
- 2 Kings 9:16 θεραπεύω So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
- Esther 2:19 θεραπεύω When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
- Esther 6:10 θεραπεύω Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.
- Proverbs 14:19 θεραπεύω The evil bow down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
- Proverbs 19:6 θεραπεύω Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, And everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
- Proverbs 29:26 θεραπεύω Many seek the ruler's favor, But a man's justice comes from Yahweh.
- Isaiah 54:17 θεραπεύω No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
- Daniel 7:10 θεραπεύω A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2323) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
