Lexical Definition

‎παιδεία‎ paideía (pahee-di'-ah) discipline G:N-F
from ‎παιδεύω‎

chastening, chastisement, instruction, nurture.

Usage: 5 forms in 55 verses
Form Translated As     In Verse(s)
παιδείᾳ discipline Eph.6.4
παιδείασ discipline Heb.12.5
for instruction LXX.Prov.3.11
instruction LXX.Ps.2.12 • LXX.Prov.4.13
of discipline Heb.12.8
of instruction LXX.Isa.50.4
παιδείαν παιδείαν instruction LXX.Amos.3.7
παιδείαν correction LXX.Jer.2.30 • LXX.Jer.5.3
discipline LXX.Jer.30.14 • Heb.12.7
for his discipline LXX.Hab.1.12
instruction LXX.Deut.11.2 • LXX.Job.20.3 • LXX.Job.37.13 • LXX.Ps.50.17 • LXX.Ps.119.66 • LXX.Prov.1.2 • LXX.Prov.1.7 • LXX.Prov.4.1 • LXX.Prov.5.12 • LXX.Prov.8.10 • LXX.Prov.12.1 • LXX.Prov.15.5 • LXX.Prov.15.32 • LXX.Prov.16.17 • LXX.Prov.19.20 • LXX.Prov.19.27 • LXX.Prov.23.12 • LXX.Prov.23.23 • LXX.Prov.24.32 • LXX.Jer.7.28 • LXX.Jer.17.23 • LXX.Jer.32.33 • LXX.Jer.35.13 • LXX.Zeph.3.2 • LXX.Zeph.3.7
training 2Tim.3.16
παιδεία but instruction LXX.Prov.10.17 • LXX.Prov.16.22
by instruction LXX.Prov.13.18
discipline LXX.Isa.53.5 • Heb.12.11
instruction LXX.Prov.6.23 • LXX.Prov.10.17 • LXX.Prov.15.10 • LXX.Prov.15.33 • LXX.Prov.17.8 • LXX.Prov.22.15 • LXX.Isa.50.5 • LXX.Ezek.13.9
your instruction LXX.Ps.18.35 • LXX.Ps.18.35 • LXX.Isa.26.16

Abbott-Smith

παιδεία (-ία, T), -ας, ἡ (< παιδεύω), [in LXX chiefly for מוּסָר;]
1. the rearing of a child (Æsch.).
2. training, learning, instruction (Plat., al.): Eph 6:4, II Ti 3:16.
3. As in LXX (Pr 3:11 15:5, al.), chastening, discipline: He 12:5(LXX), 7, 8, 11.†

Abbott-Smith References

Book Refs
Proverbs 3:11 · 15:5
Ephesians 6:4
2 Timothy 3:16
Hebrews 12:5 · 12:7 · 12:8 · 12:11

Liddell-Scott-Jones

παιδεία, ἡ,

rearing of a child, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

__2 training and teaching, education, opposed to τροφή, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 its result, mental culture, learning, education, ἡ π. εὐτυχοῦσι κόσμος, ἀτυχοῦσι καταφύγιον [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, parts or systems of education, [Refs]
__4 culture of trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 πλεκτὰν Αἰγύπτου παιδείαν ἐξηρτήσασθε the twisted handiwork of Egypt, i.e. (accusative to Scholia) ropes of papyrus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__6 anything taught or learned, art, science, π. ἱερή, of medicine, [Refs]
__7 chastisement, [LXX+NT]
__II youth, childhood, παιδείης πολυήρατον ἄνθος [παιδείας φίλος 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.11; so (probably) στερρὰν παιδείαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 206 (Lyric poetry). ">Refs 6th c.BC+]
__II.2 in collective sense, body of youths, παιδείας λιπαρὴς ὄχλος [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

LSJ Scripture Refs: LXX.Prov.22.15 ☩ Heb.12.5