Lexical Summary hygiēs: sound, whole, healthy Original Word: ὑγιήςTransliteration: hygiēs Phonetic Spelling: (hoog-ee-ace') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: sound, whole, healthy Meaning: sound, whole, healthy Strong's Concordance sound, whole. From the base of auzano; healthy, i.e. Well (in body); figuratively, true (in doctrine) -- sound, whole. see GREEK auzano Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5199: ὑγιήςὑγιής, ὑγιες, accusative ὑγιῆ (four times in the N. T., John 5:11, 15; John 7:23; Titus 2:8; for which ὑγια is more common in Attic (cf. Meisterhans, p. 66)), from Homer down, sound: properly (A. V. whole), of a man who is sound in body, Matthew 15:31 (WH only in marginal reading, but Tr brackets in marginal reading); Acts 4:10; γίνομαι, John 5:4 (R L), 6, 9, 14; ποιεῖν τινα ὑγιῆ (Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, others), to make one whole i. e. restore him to health, John 5:11, 15; John 7:23; ὑγιής ἀπό etc. sound and thus free from etc. (see ἀπό, I. 3 d.), Mark 5:34; of the members of the body, Matthew 12:13; Mark 3:5 Rec.; Luke 6:10 Rec.; metaphorically, λόγος ὑγιής (A. V. sound speech) i. e. teaching which does not deviate from the truth (see ὑγιαίνω), Titus 2:8 (in the Greek writings, often equivalent to wholesome, fit, wise: μῦθος, II. 8, 524; λόγος οὐκ ὑγιής, Herodotus 1, 8; see other examples in Passow, under the word, 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2 and 3)). |