Lexical Summary paideia: the rearing of a child, training, discipline Original Word: παιδείαTransliteration: paideia Phonetic Spelling: (pahee-di'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: the rearing of a child, training, discipline Meaning: the rearing of a child, training, discipline Strong's Concordance chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture. From paideuo; tutorage, i.e. Education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction -- chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture. see GREEK paideuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3809: παιδείαπαιδεία (Tdf. παιδία; (see Iota)), παιδείας, ἡ, (παιδεύω), the Sept. for מוּסָר; 1. the whole training and education of children (which relates to the cultivation of mind and morals, and employs for this purpose now commands and admonitions, now reproof and punishment): Ephesians 6:4 (cf. Winers Grammar, 388 (363) note); (in Greek writings from Aeschylus on, it includes also the care and training of the body.) (See especially Trench, Synonyms, § xxxii.; cf. Jowett's Plato, index under the word Education). 2. "whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, especially by correcting mistakes and curbing the passions "; hence, a. instruction which aims at the increase of virtue: 2 Timothy 3:16. b. according to Biblical usage chastisement, chastening (of the evils with which God visits men for their amendment): Hebrews 12:5 (Proverbs 3:11), |
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