ὑγιής
to heal
‘to heal’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (36%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 4 times (36%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (18%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5199 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 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.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 12:13 ὑγιὴς adj nom sg fem Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
- Matthew 15:31 ὑγιεῖς adj acc pl masc so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, injured whole, lame walking, and blind seeing--and they glorified the God of Israel.
Mark 1 verse
John 6 verses
- John 5:6 ὑγιὴς adj nom sg masc When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
- John 5:9 ὑγιὴς adj nom sg masc Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
- John 5:11 ὑγιῆ adj acc sg masc He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
- John 5:14 ὑγιὴς adj nom sg masc Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
- John 5:15 ὑγιῆ adj acc sg masc The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
- John 7:23 ὑγιῆ adj acc sg masc If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
Acts 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
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.
υγιης (hygiḗs) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “to heal.” John dominates its distribution — 6 of 11 verses. Spanning 11 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Its English rendering has broadened — “whole” classically, “well” (Berean Standard Bible) and “healthy” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. 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 G5199 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 82%
- Johannine 6 verses · 55%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 9%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 9%
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: Whole 12×
- American Standard Version: Whole 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Well 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Healthy 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5199 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5199 across 11 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5199 across 11 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5199 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 3 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.
- sound
- to make one whole i.e. restore him to health
- metaph. teaching which does not deviate from the truth
Word origin
Derived from αυξανω (auxánō) (G837) — to increase.
From the base of G837 ; healthy that is well (in body); figuratively true (in doctrine): - sound whole.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5199 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑγιὴς hygiḕs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 5:6 | 5 |
| ὑγιῆ hygiē̂ | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 5:11 | 4 |
| ὑγιής hygiḗs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 4:10 | 1 |
| ὑγιεῖς hygieîs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 15:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5199, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υγιης appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 13:10 ὑγιής
- Joshua 10:21 ὑγιής
- Isaiah 38:21 ὑγιής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5199) 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.
- Leviticus 13:10 ὑγιής and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,
- Leviticus 13:15 ὑγιής The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.
- Leviticus 13:16 ὑγιής Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;
- Joshua 10:21 ὑγιής that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
- Isaiah 38:21 ὑγιής Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5199) 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.
