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Word

ὑγιαίνω

hygiaínō · G5198 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to be well, to be healthy

    The state of being healthy, well (in contrast with sickness)

    Examples

    Luke 5:31 And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

    Luke 7:10 And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

    Luke 15:27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’

  2. to be correct, to be sound, to be accurate

    (Derivative of ὑγιής ‘right, accurate,’) To be correct in one’s views, with the implication of such a state being positively valued

    Examples

    1 Timothy 1:10 for the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

    1 Timothy 6:3 If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,

    2 Timothy 1:13 Hold on to the example of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

12 occurrences in 4 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 5 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 entries
To be well, to be healthy23.129
Luke 5:31 — “And Jesus answered and said to them, ‘It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.’”
To be correct, to be sound, to be accurate72.15
2 Timothy 4:3 — “For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires.”
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

αὐξάνω auxánō · G837 · to increase, to grow, to spread · 22×ὑγιαίνωhygiaínō · G5198ὑγιής hygiḗs · G5199 · to be well, to be healthy, right · 12×αὔξησις aúxēsis · G838 · to grow, growth · 2×συναυξάνω synauxánō · G4885 · to grow with, to grow together · 1×ὑπεραυξάνω hyperauxánō · G5232 · to increase greatly · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ὑγιής); from Herodotus down; to be sound, to be well, to be in good health: properly, Lk…
(ὑγιής); from Herodotus down; to be sound, to be well, to be in good health: properly, Lk 5:31; Lk 7:10; Lk 15:27; (3 Jn 1:2); metaphorically, the phrase ὑγιαίνειν ἐν τῇ πίστει (Buttmann, § 133, 19) is used of one whose Christian opinions are free from any admixture of error, Tit 1:13; τῇ πίστει, τῇ ἀγάπη, τῇ ὑπομονή, (cf. Buttmann, as above), of one who keeps these graces sound and strong, Tit 2:2; ἡ ὑγιαίνουσα διδασκαλία, the sound i. e. true and incorrupt doctrine, 1 Tim 1:10; 2 Tim 4:3; Tit 1:9; Tit 2:1; also λόγοι ὑγιαίνοντες (Philo de Abrah. § 38), 1 Tim 6:3; 2 Tim 1:13, (ὑγιαινουσαι περί θεῶν δόξαι καί ἀληθεῖς, Plutarch, de aud. poet. c. 4).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Health, Vigor, Strength7 occurrencesAccurate, Inaccurate5 occurrences

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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