θεραπεία, -as, ἡ. (θεραπεύω) ; 1. service, rendered by any one to another. 2. spec. medical service, curing, healing: Lk. ix. 11; Rev. xxii. 2, ([Hippoer.], Plat., Tsoer., Polyb.). 3. by meton. household, i.e. body of attendants, servants, domestics: Mt. xxiv. 45 RG; Lk. xii. 42, (and often so in Grk. writ.; cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 469; for Ὁ" 12}», Gen. xlv. 16).

θεραπεία, -ας, ἡ

(θεραπεύω), [in LXX for עֲבָדִים, Ge 45:16 (cf. Es 5:2), etc.;]

service.

healing: Lk 9:11 (Field, Notes, 60), Re 22:2.

Collective, household attendants, servants: Lk 12:42 (LXX, Ge 45:16, Es 5:2, etc.).†

θεραπεία. An interesting example of this subst. = ‘‘ medical treatment,” a ‘‘cure” in the sense in which we often use that term, as in Lk ΟἿΣ, is found in P Tebt I. 44° (B.c. 114) where the writer states that he had been staying in the great temple of Isis ἐπὶ θεραπείαι. . . χάριν τῆς περιεχούσης pe ἀρρωστίας, 1.4. not ‘‘for devotional purposes,” but, as the editors alternatively render the phrase in their note, ‘‘ for medical treatment on account of the sickness from which I am suffering”: cf. Wilcken Cérest. I. p. 1g8 “zur Kur.” The word is found in the same sense in the new Logion, P Oxy I. 1 recto! λέγει ᾿Τησοῦς, οὐκ ἔστιν δεκτὸς προφήτης ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτ[ο]ῦ, οὐδὲ ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ θεραπείας εἰς τοὺς γεινώσκοντας αὐτόν. For a similar association with ‘*healing,” ‘‘ health,” cf. Pretsigke 159 τὸ προσκύνημα Εἰὐγράφιος mapa τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ ᾿Ασκληπιῷ kal ᾿Αμενώθῃ καὶ “Yyrelq. Μνήσθητι ὑμῶν καὶ παράδος ὑμῖν θεραπείαν, and 20. 1537b ᾿Αλέ[ξαν]δ[ρ]ος ὃ καὶ ᾿Αγαθὸς Δαίμων θεραπίας ἐπιτυχὼν ὅλου σώματος χαρίον (1. χαριστήριον) ἀνέθηκεν, ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθῶι. In P Par 317 (ii/B.c.) the word is used with reference to the religious service which the Twins render in the Serapeum— πρὸς τῇ θεραπείᾳ τοῦ Σαράπιος καὶ τῆς Ἴσιος. Cf OG/S 3837° (mid. 1.8.6.) θεραπείαν τε ἀνέγλειπτον καὶ ἱερεῖς ἐπιλέξας σὺν πρεπούσαις ἐσθῆσι ΠΕερσικῶι γένει κατέστησα, and 20, 181 προνοούμενος θεραπείας τε καὶ κόσμου πρέποντος θεραπε vo ἱερῶν ἀγαλμάτων : also Micke! 829! (1st half i/p.c.) ἔπεσκεύασα St Kal Td προσκήνιον [καὶ els] τὴν τῶν ἀγαλμάτων ἐπαγάνωσιν καὶ θ[εἸραπείαν ἔδωκα τῇ κατασταθείσῃ ἀρχῇ δραχμὰς διακοσίας ἐνενήκοντα tért[a]pas.

θεραπεία (therapeia) — service. θερᾰπ-εία, Ionic dialect θερᾰπ-ηΐη (θερᾰπ-είη [Refs 5th c.BC+], ἡ, service, attendance:

I. of persons, θ. τῶν θεῶν service paid to the gods, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀγυιάτιδες θ. worship of Apollo Agyieus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of parents, γονέων θεραπείας καὶ τιμάς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of children, nurture, care, μικροὺς παῖδας θεραπείας δεομένους [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. σώματος, ψυχῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. service done to gain favour, paying court, θ. τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ προεστώτων [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. medical or surgical treatment or cure, χειρός, ποδός, Hp.[same place]; αἱ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν θ. αἱ διὰ καύσεων γιγνόμεναι cures by cautery, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐκ τῶν γραμμάτων θ. treatment secundum artem, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; healing, θεραπείας ἐπιτυχών [Refs]: in plural, cures, ἰατρὸς ποιεῖ -είας [Refs]

III. of animals, care, tendance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III.2. of plants, cultivation, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III.3. maintenance or repairs of temples, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

III.4. preparation of fat for medical use, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

IV. in collective sense, body of attendants, retinue, [LXX+5th c.BC+]