paideuo denotes corrective discipline or formative instruction, including education, training, and teaching opponents.

The predominant use concerns corrective discipline: people are disciplined, punished, or corrected in settings of judgment, parental treatment, endurance, and love. A second cluster concerns formative instruction, including education, gentle teaching of opponents, and training toward a changed manner of life.

1. Corrective discipline or punishment · dominant

   In Hebrews 12:6 and Hebrews 12:7, the present active form describes the Lord's and a father's discipline of a son; in Hebrews 12:10, the imperfect active form refers to prior parental discipline. In 1 Corinthians 11:32 and 2 Corinthians 6:9, passive forms place the subjects under discipline, while in Luke 23:16 the aorist participle occurs in the stated plan to punish and release.

   Hebrews 12:6Hebrews 12:7Hebrews 12:101 Corinthians 11:322 Corinthians 6:9Luke 23:16
2. Formative education, instruction, or training · common

   In Acts 7:22 and Acts 22:3, passive forms describe Moses and Paul as educated; in 2 Timothy 2:25, a present active participle describes gently instructing opponents. In Titus 2:12, the present active participle stands with renouncing ungodliness and living self-controlled, upright, and godly lives; 1 Timothy 1:20 similarly states the purpose that certain people may be taught not to blaspheme.

   Acts 7:22Acts 22:32 Timothy 2:25Titus 2:121 Timothy 1:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses several English expressions across these clauses, including “disciplined,” “punish,” “educated,” “instructing,” and “trains.” These are presentations of the verse contexts rather than fixed equivalents for the lemma.