Senses
1. physician, doctor — A healer or medical practitioner; used in the NT both literally (Luke the physician, the woman who spent all on physicians in Mark 5:26) and in Jesus's proverbial saying 'Physician, heal yourself' and 'The healthy have no need of a physician.' Multilingual evidence confirms singular and plural as the same concept: Spanish 'medico/medicos', Hindi 'vaidya/vaidyon', Arabic 'tabibin/atibba'a', Korean 'uisareul/uisadeului', Swahili 'tabibu/madaktari'. The singular (N-GMS, N-VMS, N-NMS) and plural (N-GMP, N-DMP) forms are grammatical number variation of one sense. 7×
AR["أَطِبّاءَ","أَيُّها-الطَّبيبُ","الطَّبيبُ","بِطَبيبٍ","طَبيبٍ","عَلى-أَطِبّاءَ"]·ben["চিকিৎসক","চিকিৎসকদের","বৈদ্য","বৈদ্যদের-জন্য","বৈদ্যের","বৈদ্যের,"]·DE["ἰατροῦ","ἰατρὸς","ἰατρῶν","Ἰατρέ","‹ἰατροῖς"]·EN["Physician","of-a-physician","of-physician","on-physicians","physician","physicians"]·FR["Médecin"]·heb["לְרוֹפְאִים","רוֹפְאִים","רוֹפֵא"]·HI["बहुत","वैद्य","वैद्य-की","वैद्यों-पर"]·ID["Tabib","dokter","dokter,","kepada-dokter","tabib"]·IT["iatros","medico"]·jav["Dhoktèr","dhateng-dhokter,","dhatèng-tabib","dhokter","dhoktèr","dhukun,"]·KO["의사","의사-를","의사-의","의사들에게","의사들의,","의사여"]·PT["com-médicos","de-médico","de-médico,","médico","médicos,"]·RU["Врач","во-враче","во-враче,","врач","врачам","врачей"]·ES["Médico","a-médicos","de-médico","médico","médicos"]·SW["Tabibu","daktari,","kwa-madaktari","madaktari,","tabibu","ya-daktari,"]·TR["Hekim","doktor","doktora","doktora,","doktorların,","hekime","‹hekimlere"]·urd["حکیموں-پر","طبیب","طبیب-کی","طبیبوں-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἰᾱτρός, Ionic dialect ἰητρός, ὁ, (ἰάομαι) like{ἰατήρ}, one who heals, physician or surgeon, Refs 8th c.BC+; φὼς ἰ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἥρως ἰ., worshipped at Athens and elsewhere, Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐ πρὸς ἰατροῦ σοφοῦ θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰς πρὸς τομῶντι πήματι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰατρῶν παῖδες, for ἰατροί, Refs 2nd c.AD+; as a name of Apollo, Refs 5th c.BC+ Trag.1.5; of Aphrodite, Refs 1st c.AD+; midwife, Refs…