παιδεία
training
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (33%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 2 times (33%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3809 appears — 6 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Ephesians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 4 verses
- Hebrews 12:5 παιδίας n gen sg fem and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
- Hebrews 12:7 παιδίαν n acc sg fem It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
- Hebrews 12:8 παιδίας n gen sg fem But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
- Hebrews 12:11 παιδία n nom sg fem All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
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.
παιδεια (paideía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “training.” Hebrews dominates its distribution — 4 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Ephesians 6:4. 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
About this word
Strong's G3809 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 4 verses · 67%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 33%
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: Chastening 3×
- American Standard Version: Chastening 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Discipline 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Discipline 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3809 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G3809 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G3809 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G3809 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- the whole training and education of children (which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals…
- whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, esp. by correcting mistakes and curbing passions.
Word origin
Derived from παιδευω (paideúō) (G3811) — to discipline.
From G3811 ; tutorage that is education or training ; by implication disciplinary correction : - chastening chastisement instruction nurture.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3809 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παιδίας paidías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:5 | 2 |
| παιδία paidía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:11 | 1 |
| παιδίαν paidían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:7 | 1 |
| παιδείαν paideían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Timothy 3:16 | 1 |
| παιδείᾳ paideía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 6:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3809, 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
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παιδεια appears 57 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 55 verses in 13 books.
- 57
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 55
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 11:2 παιδεία
- 1 Samuel 1:2 παιδεία
- Ezra 7:26 παιδεία
- Job 20:3 παιδεία
- Psalms 2:12 παιδεία
- Proverbs 1:2 παιδεία
- Isaiah 8:18 παιδεία
- Jeremiah 2:30 παιδεία
- Ezekiel 13:9 παιδεία
- Daniel 1:20 παιδεία
- Amos 3:7 παιδεία
- Habakkuk 1:12 παιδεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3809) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 55. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 11:2 παιδεία Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
- Deuteronomy 22:7 παιδεία you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
- 1 Samuel 1:2 παιδεία and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
- Ezra 7:26 παιδεία Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
- Job 20:3 παιδεία I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.
- Job 37:13 παιδεία Whether it is for correction, or for his land, Or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
- Psalms 2:12 παιδεία Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Psalms 17:36 παιδεία
- Psalms 49:17 παιδεία For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
- Psalms 118:66 παιδεία
- Proverbs 1:2 παιδεία To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
- Proverbs 1:7 παιδεία The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 1:8 παιδεία My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
- Proverbs 3:11 παιδεία My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:
- Proverbs 4:1 παιδεία Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
- Proverbs 4:13 παιδεία Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
- Proverbs 5:12 παιδεία And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
- Proverbs 6:23 παιδεία For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
- Proverbs 8:10 παιδεία Receive my instruction rather than silver; Knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 10:17 παιδεία He is in the way of life who heeds correction, But he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
- Proverbs 12:1 παιδεία Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.
- Proverbs 13:18 παιδεία Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, But he who heeds correction shall be honored.
- Proverbs 15:5 παιδεία A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
- Proverbs 15:10 παιδεία There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: Whoever hates reproof shall die.
- Proverbs 15:32 παιδεία He who refuses correction despises his own soul, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
- Proverbs 15:33 παιδεία The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
- Proverbs 16:13 παιδεία Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
- Proverbs 16:18 παιδεία Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 17:8 παιδεία A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; Wherever he turns, he prospers.
- Proverbs 19:20 παιδεία Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
- Proverbs 19:27 παιδεία If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:15 παιδεία Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 23:12 παιδεία Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.
- Proverbs 24:32 παιδεία Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
- Proverbs 25:1 παιδεία These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
- Isaiah 8:18 παιδεία Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 26:16 παιδεία Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.
- Isaiah 50:4 παιδεία The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Isaiah 50:5 παιδεία The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
- Isaiah 53:5 παιδεία But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
- Isaiah 66:8 παιδεία Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
- Isaiah 66:12 παιδεία For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it]; you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the knees.
- Jeremiah 2:30 παιδεία In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 5:3 παιδεία O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 7:28 παιδεία You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
- Jeremiah 17:23 παιδεία But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
- Jeremiah 37:14 παιδεία Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
- Jeremiah 39:33 παιδεία
- Jeremiah 42:13 παιδεία But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
- Ezekiel 13:9 παιδεία My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3809) 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.
