What does γυμνασία (gymnasía) mean in the Bible?
γυμνασία (gymnasía): Physical discipline and training with spiritual benefit, especially moral and religious development.
Greek · G1129
γυμνασία
Training
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γυμνασίαG1129
Pronunciationgymnasía
What does γυμνασία (gymnasía) mean in the Bible?
γυμνασία (gymnasía): Physical discipline and training with spiritual benefit, especially moral and religious development.
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How does the BSB render G1129?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include exercise (1).
Where does γυμνασία (gymnasía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Timothy 4:8. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Timothy (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Itexercise1×1 Timothy 4:8
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First aligned row1 Timothy 4:8
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
1 Timothy1
Source forms
γυμνασία1xgymnasia1 Timothy 4:8
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1x1 Timothy 4:8
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Physical discipline and training with spiritual benefit, especially moral and religious development.
Strong'sG1129
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
training
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Physical discipline and training with spiritual benefit, especially moral and religious development.
(γυμνάζω), [in LXX: 4Ma.11:20 * ;] exercise: 1Ti.4:8.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Timothy 4:8Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
γυμνασίαgumnasia
physical exercise
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine1 Tim 4:81×
Word Origins
γυμνασία is built from this root:
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