paideia (discipline)

Meaning

Usually translated “discipline” and “training”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

discipline 4
training 1
of discipline 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Hebrews 4
Ephesians 1
2 Timothy 1

3 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

2 Timothy 3:16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Hebrews 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Hebrews 12:7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Hebrews 12:8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Greek dictionary

παιδεία paideia · discipline

παιδεία (-ία, Τ), -ας, ἡ (παιδεύω), [in LXX chiefly for מוּסָר ;] 1. the rearing of a child (Æsch.). 2. training, learning, instruction (Plat., al.): Eph.6:4, 2Ti.3:16. 3. As in LXX (Pro.3:11 15:5, al.), chastening, discipline: Heb.12:5 (LXX), Heb.12:7-8, 11.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “discipline” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DISCIPLINE, noun

[Latin, to learn.]

Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as military discipline which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.
Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.
Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline

All definitions and other forms of “discipline”

Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as the discipline of the strap.
In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ.
Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish Church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself.

DISCIPLINE, verb transitive

To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
To correct; to chastise; to punish.
To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
To advance and prepare by instruction.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.