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Strong's #2324 - θεράπων
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θερᾰπ-ων, οντος, ὁ,
dat. pl. θεραπόντεσσι Pi. P. 4.41; Aeol. θεράπων Sapph. 74, gen. θερράπονος Choerob.in An Ox. 2.242 (θεράπονος cod., cf. Hdn.Gr.2.302): —
I henchman, attendant, Od. 16.253, etc.; companion in arms, squire, 4.23, etc.; ἡνίοχος θ. Il. 5.580, 8.119; τώ οἱ ἔσαν κήρυκε.. καὶ θεράποντε 1.321; θεράποντε Διός Od. 11.255; θεράποντες Ἄρηος Il. 2.110, etc.; Μουσάων θεράποντες h.Hom. 32.20, cf. Hes. Th. 100, Thgn. 769, Ar. Av. 909 (lyr.); Ἔρως Ἀφροδίτης θ. Pl. Smp. 203c, cf. Sapph. l.c.; worshipper, Ἀπόλλωνος Pi. O. 3.16, cf. Pl. Phd. 85a; Ἄρεος BMus.Inscr. 971 (Cypr., v B.C.): c. dat., οἶκος ξένοισι θεράπων devoted to the service of its guests, Pi. O. 13.3; λωτὸς.. Μουσᾶν θ. E. El. 717 (lyr.): c. gen., attending upon, τῶν ἀδίκως δυστυχούντων Gorg. Fr. 6 D.
II servant, Hdt. 1.30, 5.105, Ar. Pl. 3, 5, And. 1.12, Lys. 7.34, etc.; at Chios, slave, Eust. ad D.P. 533.
For this word, which in the NT is confined to the OT quot. in Hebrews 3:5, cf. BGU I. 361 iii. 18 (A.D. 184) ἐὰν μεταπέμψῃ Κρονοῦν θεράπ [οντα ] αὐτοῦ, μαρτυρήσει κτλ. In connexion with its LXX usage, Thackeray (Gr. i. p. 7 f.) has pointed out the interesting fact that it is gradually superseded in the later books by the less intimate and confidential terms οἰκέτης, παῖς, and δοῦλος, in keeping with the growing tendency to emphasize the distance between God and man.
The fem. θεράπαινα (cf. Rutherford NP, p. 22) occurs in P Giss I. 34.6 (A.D. 265–6) τὴν τούτ ̣ο ̣υ θε [ρ ]άπαιναν, P Oxy XII. 1468.13 (c. A.D. 258) θεράπαινα Θαῆσις.
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