Word study
Train
1 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: trained, train, trains, training. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “train” or one of its forms.
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- לָמַד lâmadexercise in, learntranslated this way 8 times of its 82 uses · Strong’s H3925Verb · Translated: teach 29, learn 14, taught 13, trains 3Full study and all 78 verses →
2 Samuel 22:35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
1 Chronicles 5:18 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors— valiant men who carried the shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for battle.
Greek words (New Testament)
- γυμνάζω gymnázōI train by physical exercisetranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G1128Verb · Translated: trained 3, train 1Full study and all 4 verses →
1 Timothy 4:7 But reject irreverent, silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.
Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.