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Hygies describes what is well, whole, sound, healthy, or restored to proper condition. In the Gospels it often appears in healing contexts: a man wants to get well, is made well by Jesus, and then must hear Jesus' warning to stop sinning.
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Hygies describes what is well, whole, sound, healthy, or restored to proper condition. In the Gospels it often appears in healing contexts: a man wants to get well, is made well by Jesus, and then must hear Jesus' warning to stop sinning.
The BSB source-word alignment has 11 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include well (5), [and] wholesome (1), free (1), healed (1), made well (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 12:13. Its strongest book concentrations include John (6), Matthew (2), Acts (1), Mark (1).
Hygies describes what is well, whole, sound, healthy, or restored to proper condition. In the Gospels it often appears in healing contexts: a man wants to get well, is made well by Jesus, and then must hear Jesus' warning to stop sinning. John 7 uses the word for the whole man made well on the Sabbath, placing restoration inside a dispute over law and mercy.
Acts 4 uses the healed man as public evidence that Jesus Christ, crucified and raised, has acted. Matthew 12 describes a withered hand restored to full use. Titus extends the word into speech that is wholesome and above reproach. Hygies therefore resists shallow wellness language. It can name bodily restoration, public testimony, moral warning, and sound speech, but each claim must stay attached to its passage.
Hygies names wellness, wholeness, soundness, or restoration. In the New Testament it appears around Jesus' healings, apostolic witness, Sabbath controversy, and wholesome speech.
When Jesus saw him lying there and realized that he had spent a long time in this condition, He asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
Jesus asks the long-afflicted man whether he wants to get well, making restoration personal before it becomes public controversy.
Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
Jesus finds the healed man and warns him to stop sinning, so being made well is not treated as detached from moral summons.
If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
Jesus argues from circumcision to making the whole man well on the Sabbath, exposing anger at mercy under the law's surface.
Then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
Peter identifies the healed man's wholeness as the work of Jesus Christ, whom God raised from the dead.
Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.
The restored hand shows bodily wholeness in a Sabbath dispute where Jesus does good rather than harm.
And wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
The word extends to wholesome speech, where soundness appears as teaching conduct that leaves opponents without a true charge.
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Greek word. Physical wholeness and soundness, also applied metaphorically to doctrine as doctrinally sound or orthodox
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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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.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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ὑγιής is built from this root:
Physical restoration reflecting deeper wholeness.
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Hygies teaches that biblical wholeness is concrete and accountable. John 5 does not give a vague promise of wellness; it shows Jesus addressing a real affliction, making the man well, and then calling him away from sin. John 7 refuses a Sabbath reading that resents restoration while claiming zeal for Moses. Acts 4 makes the healed man a public witness to the crucified and risen Christ.
Matthew 12 shows Jesus restoring a hand in a controversy about doing good. Titus 2 uses the same family of soundness for speech that cannot rightly be condemned. The word therefore belongs to restoration, but restoration is not a detached ideal. It is received under Jesus' authority, displayed in witness, and extended into sound doctrine and conduct.
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Hygies can describe bodily health, restored use, sound condition, or wholesome speech. The context decides whether the emphasis is physical, moral, public, or instructional.
The Bible's hope for wholeness includes bodies, worship, speech, and restored communion with God. Jesus' healings preview restoration while His warnings and apostolic teaching keep wholeness from becoming mere comfort detached from holiness.