γυμνασία
gymnasía · G1129 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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physical exercise
To engage in physical exercise as a way of improving the body
Examples1 Timothy 4:8 for bodily training is just slightly beneficial, but godliness is beneficial for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σωματικόςbodily 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὠφέλιμοςadvantage 1
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Contrasting words 1 word
- τρυφή tryphḗ · G5172 · to revel, to carouse, to live a life of luxury
- τρυφή denotes self-indulgent luxury and soft living, the lexical opposite of ascetic training/discipline (γυμνασία), representing the contrast between self-denial and self-indulgence
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Physical exercise50.7
- Used of bodily training as distinct from spiritual discipline, as of bodily training being only slightly beneficial compared to godliness in 1 Timothy 4:8.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γυμνασιας, ἡ (γυμνάζω); a. properly, the exercise of the body in the palaestra. b. any…
a. properly, the exercise of the body in the palaestra.
b. any exercise whatever: σωματική γυμνασία, the exercise of conscientiousness relative to the body, such as is characteristic of ascetics and consists in abstinence from matrimony and certain kinds of food, 1 Tim 4:8. (4 Macc. 11:19. In Greek writings from Plato, legg. i., p. 648 c. down.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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