- θεραπεία
- θεραπεία, ας, ἡ (s. two next entries; Eur., Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX, TestJob 38:8; JosAs, EpArist, Philo, Joseph.; Just., A I, 9, 3; Ath., R. 49, 10 al.; Just., A I, 12, 5 and Tat. 34, 2 ‘cultic service’) gener. ‘serving, service, care’ bestowed on another.① the use of medical resources in treating the sick, treatment, esp. healing (Hippocr. et al.; PTebt 44, 6–9 [114 B.C.] ὄντος μου ἐπὶ θεραπείᾳ ἐν τῷ … Ἰσιείῳ χάριν τ. ἀρρωστίας ‘when I was in the … shrine of Isis for treatment of a malady’; Sb 159, 4f; 1537b; TestJob 38:8).ⓐ lit. (Diod S 1, 25, 7 [pl.]; 17, 89, 2; Lucian, Abdic. 7; Philo, Deus Imm. 63; Jos., Vi. 85) Lk 9:11. θεραπείας ποιεῖν perform healings Ox 1 recto, 12f (ASyn. 33, 85; cp. GTh 31); τὰς θ. ἐπετέλουν GJs 20:2 (codd. not pap).ⓑ fig., w. obj. gen. (cp. Pla., Prot. 345a τ. καμνόντων; Sb 1537b; θ. ὅλου σώματος; SIG 888, 125; Philo, Spec. Leg. 1, 191 θ. ἁμαρτημάτων) θ. τῶν ἐθνῶν Rv 22:2.② =οἱ θεράποντες servants (Hdt. et al.; Gen 45:16; Esth 5:2b; JosAs; Philo, In Flacc. 149; Jos., Bell. 1, 82, Ant. 4, 112) καταστῆσαί τινα ἐπὶ τῆς θ. put someone in charge of the servants (cp. Polyb. 4, 87, 5 ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς θ. τεταγμένος) Lk 12:42; Mt 24:45 v.l.—DELG s.v. θεράπων. M-M. TW.
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