^{G2322, G2323,}

θεραπεία, therapeia, therapy, healing, θεραπεύω , therateuo.

Illustrations of English words derived from Greek words used in the New Testament.

Both words θεραπεία^G2322 [noun] and θεραπεύω ^G2323 [verb] have to do with service in healing. It has to do with the effects of the tree of life.

DICTIONARIES

STRONG'S HEBREW AND GREEK DICTIONARIES:

G2322 θεραπεία therapeia ther-ap-i'-ah, noun feminine [from G2323*] attendance (specifically medical, that is, cure); figuratively and collectively domestics: - healing, household. In KJV, Luke 9:11 --From its original meaning of waiting on, attendance, it comes to mean the retinue of attendants; the body of household servants. Total KJV occurrences: 4

* G2323 θεραπεύω therapeuo ther-ap-yoo'-o, verb

to wait upon menially, that is, (figuratively) to adore (God), or (specifically) to relieve(of disease): - cure, heal, worship. Total KJV occurrences: 44

Thayer's:

G2322 Part of Speech: noun feminine

1) service rendered by one to another; 2) spec. medical service: curing, healing; 3) household service; 3a) body of attendants, servants, domestics;

G2323 Part of Speech: verb

1) to serve, do service; 2) to heal, cure, restore to health

VINE's Expository Dictionary of NT Words:

Life, Living, Lifetime, Life-Giving:

B — 1: θεραπεία (Strong's #2322 — Noun Feminine — therapeia — ther-ap-i'-ah ) akin to A, No. 1, primarily denotes "care, attention," Luke 12:42 (see HOUSEHOLD); then, "medical service, healing" (Eng., "therapy"), Luke 9:11; Revelation 22:2, of the effects of the leaves of the tree of life, perhaps here with the meaning "health."

A— 1: θεραπεύω (Strong's #2323 — Verb — therapeuo — ther-ap-yoo'-o ) primarily signifies "to serve as a therapon, and attendant;" then, "to care for the sick, to treat, cure, heal" (Eng., "therapeutics"). It is chiefly used in Matthew and Luke, once in John (John 5:10 ), and, after the Acts, only Revelation 13:3,12.

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ETYMOLOGY OF ENGLISH USE

therapy (n.) in English by 1846, "medical treatment of disease," from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia "curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service," from therapeuein "to cure, treat medically," literally "attend, do service, take care of".

Related words in English:

hypnotherapy (n.)1897, from hypno- "sleep" + therapy. Related: Hypnotherapist.

hydrotherapy (n.)1842, from hydro- "water" + therapy. Related: Hydrotherapeutic.

radiotherapy (n.)1903, from radio- + therapy.

physiotherapy (n.)1905, from physio- + therapy. Related: Physiotherapist.

aromatherapy (n.)by 1992, from French aromathérapie, which is attested from 1930s; see aroma + therapy.

therapist (n.)1880, from therapy + -ist; earlier was therapeutist (1816). Especially of psychotherapy practitioners from c. 1930s.

chemotherapy (n.)"treatment of diseases by chemical substances," 1906, from German Chemotherapie, coined by German biochemist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), from chemo- + therapie (see therapy). Especially of cancer from 1950s; short form chemo attested by 1977. psychotherapy (n.)1892 in modern sense, from psycho- + therapy, in model of French psychothérapie (1889). In early use also of hypnotism. Psychotherapeia was used in medical writing in 1853 as "remedial influence of the mind." Related: Psychotherapeutic. metallotherapy (n.) "treatment of disease by the external application of metals," by 1856, from metallon, Greek source of metal (n.) + therapy.

BIBLICAL TEXT EXAMPLES

θεραπεία^G2322 therapeia. noun. Total KJV Occurrences: 4 translated ...

healing, 2: Luke 9:11, Revelation 22:2; household, 2: Matthew 24:45, Luke 12:42

θεραπεύω^G2323. therapeuo: Total KJV Occurrences: 44 translated …

healed, 25 Matthew 4:24, Matthew 8:16, Matthew 12:15, Matthew 12:22, Matthew 14:14, Matthew 15:30, Matthew 19:2, Matthew 21:14, Mark 1:34, Mark 3:10, Mark 6:5, Mark 6:13, Luke 4:40, Luke 5:15, Luke 6:18, Luke 8:43, Luke 13:14 (2), Luke 14:4, Acts 4:14, Acts 5:16, Acts 8:7, Acts 28:9, Revelation 13:3, Revelation 13:12 :::

“And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed (therapeuo ^G2323) them” (Matthew 4:24).

heal, 10 Matthew 8:7, Matthew 10:1, Matthew 10:8, Matthew 12:10, Mark 3:2, Mark 3:15, Luke 4:23, Luke 6:7, Luke 10:9, Luke 14:3

cured, 3 Matthew 17:18, Luke 7:21, Joh_5:10; healing, 3 Matthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Luke 9:6; cure, 2 Matthew 17:16, Luke 9:1

worshipped, 1 Acts 17:25 “Neither is [God] worshipped (therapeuo ^G2323, i.e.,“attended”) with men's hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”

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Note: Two other Greek words in the Bible that have to do with healing are (1) ἰάομαι^G2390 which has to do with both physical and spiritual healing; it is used in English as a word-forming element -iatric "to heal". (2) σῴζω^G4982 has to do with "being made whole".(Vine's Expository Dictionary of the NT).
GW--[essence of being saved]

----- GAYLON WEST