ἴαμα
íama · G2386 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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the power to heal, the capacity to heal
(Derivative of ἰάομαι ‘to cause to be well again, to heal,’) The capacity to cause someone to become healed or cured
Examples1 Corinthians 12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- χάρισμαgift, gracious gift 3
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- The power to heal, the capacity to heal23.138
- In 1 Corinthians 12:9, Paul writes of the Spirit's gifts, “to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,” naming this capacity directly.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἰαματος, τό (ἰάομαι); 1. a means of healing, remedy, medicine; (Wis. 11:4 Wis. 16:9;…
1. a means of healing, remedy, medicine; (Wis. 11:4 Wis. 16:9; Herodotus 3, 130; Thucydides 2, 51; Polybius 7, 14, 2; Plutarch, Lucian, others).
2. a healing: plural, 1 Cor 12:9, 1 Cor 12:28, 1 Cor 12:30; (Jer 40:6, etc.; Plato, legg. 7, p. 790 d.).
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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