θεράπων
therápōn · G2324 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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servant
(Derivative of θεραπεύω ‘to serve,’) A person who renders service
ExamplesHebrews 3:5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- διάκονος diákonos · G1249 · servant, deacon, one who helps the believers
- The target term θεράπων and διάκονος (“an attendant; i.e., a waiter at table or in other menial duties; specially, a Christian teacher and pastor, technically a deacon”) share the basic sense of a servant or attendant; διάκονος additionally carries a specialized sense of formal Christian ministry that extends beyond the shared servant-register core.
In the other Testament 1 word
- עֶבֶד ʻebed · H5650 · slave, servant, officer
- Hebrew עֶבֶד (ʻebed, H5650) denotes a servant or bondservant in general contexts across the Hebrew Bible; Greek θεράπων (therápōn, G2324) is a more elevated term for an attendant who serves with care or devotion, particularly in sacred or honorable service (notably used of Moses in Hebrews 3:5), representing a register-shifted but semantically equivalent rendering in Hellenistic translation contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Servant35.20
- In Hebrews 3:5, of Moses it is written that he “was faithful in all God's house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later,” naming him directly as this kind of attendant.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θεράποντός, ὁ (perhaps from a root to hold, have about one; cf. English retainer;…
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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