paideia · discipline, training

What it means

paideia (παιδεία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “discipline, training”.

Discipline: the raising of a child, with teaching and correction.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Raising a child: teaching and correcting.
2. Correction that hurts, like that of a loving father.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• discipline ×5
• training ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ephesians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×4

• Ephesians 6:4

  And fathers, do not provoke to anger your children, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

• 2 Timothy 3:16

  All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness,

• Hebrews 12:5

  and you have forgotten the encouragement that addresses you as sons: My son, do not think lightly of the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are rebuked by him;

• Hebrews 12:7

  It is for discipline that you endure; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

• Hebrews 12:8

  But if you are without discipline, in which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

• Hebrews 12:11

  Now no discipline for the present seems to be a cause of joy, but of grief; but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.