ὑγιαίνω
to be healthy
‘to be healthy’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5198 appears in the Book of Luke — 3 distinct verses. 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 5:31 ὑγιαίνοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
- Luke 7:10 ὑγιαίνοντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
- Luke 15:27 ὑγιαίνοντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'
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.
At its core, υγιαινω (hygiaínō) means “to be healthy.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 5:31. Spanning 12 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Titus (33% of all occurrences). Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5198 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 67%
- Gospels 3 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
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: Sound 6×
- American Standard Version: Sound 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sound 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Healthy 4×, Sound 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5198 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G5198 across 12 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5198 across 12 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 G5198 across 12 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.
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 be sound, to be well, to be in good health
- metaph.
Word origin
Derived from υγιης (hygiḗs) (G5199) — to heal.
From G5199 ; to have sound health that is be well (in body); figuratively to be uncorrupt ( true in doctrine): - be in health (be safe and) sound (be) whole (-some).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G5198 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑγιαινούσῃ hygiainoúsē | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 1:10 | 3 |
| ὑγιαίνοντα hygiaínonta | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:10 | 2 |
| ὑγιαίνειν hygiaínein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 3 John 1:2 | 1 |
| ὑγιαίνοντας hygiaínontas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Titus 2:2 | 1 |
| ὑγιαίνοντες hygiaínontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 5:31 | 1 |
| ὑγιαίνουσιν hygiaínousin | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Timothy 6:3 | 1 |
| ὑγιαίνωσιν hygiaínōsin | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural | Titus 1:13 | 1 |
| ὑγιαινούσης hygiainoúsēs | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 2 Timothy 4:3 | 1 |
| ὑγιαινόντων hygiainóntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | 2 Timothy 1:13 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υγιαινω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- 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
- Genesis 29:6 ὑγιαίνω
- Exodus 4:18 ὑγιαίνω
- 1 Samuel 25:6 ὑγιαίνω
- 2 Samuel 20:9 ὑγιαίνω
- Proverbs 13:13 ὑγιαίνω
- Daniel 10:19 ὑγιαίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5198) 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.
- Genesis 29:6 ὑγιαίνω He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
- Genesis 37:14 ὑγιαίνω He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 43:27 ὑγιαίνω He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
- Genesis 43:28 ὑγιαίνω They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
- Exodus 4:18 ὑγιαίνω Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
- 1 Samuel 25:6 ὑγιαίνω and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
- 2 Samuel 20:9 ὑγιαίνω Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
- Proverbs 13:13 ὑγιαίνω Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, But he who respects a command will be rewarded.
- Daniel 10:19 ὑγιαίνω He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5198) 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.
