Service
θεραπείαStrong’s G2322therapeia
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Therapeia is the Greek word usually translated “healing” and “care”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.”
Meaning
Usually translated “healing” and “care”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- of healing 1
- care 1
- healing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 2
- Revelation 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 12:42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
- Revelation 22:2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Greek dictionary
θεραπεία therapeia · service
θεραπεία, -ας, ἡ (θεραπεύω) [in LXX for עֶבֶד Gen.45:16 (cf. Est.5:2), etc. ;] 1. service. 2. healing: Luk.9:11 (Field, Notes, 60), Rev.22:2. 3. Collective, household attendants, servants: Luk.12:42 (LXX, ll. with).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “service” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SERV'ICE, noun
[From Latin servitium.]
- In a general sense, labor of body or of body and mind, performed at the command of a superior, or the pursuance of duty, or for the benefit of another. service is voluntary or involuntary.
- The business of a servant; menial office.
- Attendance of a servant.
- Place of a servant; actual employment of a servant; as, to be out of service.
All definitions
- Any thing done by way of duty to a superior.
- Attendance on a superior.
- Profession of respect uttered or sent.
- Actual duty; that which is required to be done in an office; as, to perform the services of a clerk, a sherif or judge.
- That which God requires of man; worship; obedience.
- Employment; business; office; as, to qualify a man for public service.
- Use; purpose.
- Military duty by land or sea; as a military or naval service.
- A military achievment.
- Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness.
- Favor.
- The duty which a tenant owes to his lord for his fee.
- Public worship or office of devotion.
- A musical church composition consisting of choruses, trios, duets, solos, etc.
- The official duties of a minister of the gospel, as in church, at a funeral, marriage, etc.
- Courses; order of dishes at table.
- In seamen's language, the material used for serving a rope, as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
- A tree and its fruit, of the genus Sorbus.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.