Paideía — G3809

Definition

feminine noun

tutorage, i.e. education or training; by implication, disciplinary correction

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)
2. "whatever in adults also cultivates the soul, especially by correcting mistakes and curbing the passions "
1. instruction which aims at the increase of virtue
2. according to Biblical usage chastisement, chastening (of the evils with which God visits men for their amendment)

Usually translated as

chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture

Origin

from G3811

• paideúō (G3811)

Occurrences

Paideía occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ephesians (1), 2 Timothy (1), Hebrews (4)

• Ephesians 6:4 — And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture (παιδείᾳ) and admonition of the Lord.
• 2 Timothy 3:16 — All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction (παιδείαν) in righteousness:
• Hebrews 12:5 — And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening (παιδείας) of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Hebrews 12:7 — If ye endure chastening (παιδείαν), God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
• Hebrews 12:8 — But if ye be without chastisement (παιδείας), whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
• Hebrews 12:11 — Now no chastening (παιδείᾳ) for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.