δεισιδαιμονέστερος
deisidaimonésteros · G1174 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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religious
Pertaining to being religious
ExamplesActs 17:22 So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.
How it’s used
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Near synonyms 2 words
- εὐσεβής eusebḗs · G2152 · devout, pious, religious
- εὐσεβής denotes genuine piety and reverence toward God, while δεισιδαιμονέστερος (comparative of δεισιδαίμων) can carry either a positive sense of 'religious' or a negative sense of 'superstitious,' depending on context. Both describe religious devotion but δεισιδαιμονέστερος is more ambiguous in connotation.
- θρησκός thrēskós · G2357 · devout, pious, religious
- θρῆσκος emphasizes outward religious observance and ritual practice, while δεισιδαιμονέστερος (comparative form) emphasizes a greater degree of religious scrupulousness or fear of the divine. Both describe religious devotion with focus on external manifestations.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Religious53.3
- Used of piety expressed through religious observance, as of Paul's opening address to the Athenians noting that he sees they are very religious in Acts 17:22.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δεισιδαιμον, genitive δεισιδαιμονος (δείδω to fear, and δαίμων deity), fearing the deity…
1. in a good sense, reverencing god or the gods, pious, religious: Xenophon, Cyril 3, 3, 58; Ages. 11, 8; Aristotle, pol. 5, 11 (p. 1315a, 1); or
2. in a bad sense, superstitious: Theophrastus, char. 16 (22); Diodorus 1, 62; 4, 51; Plutarch, de adul. c. 16; de superstit. c. 10f Paul in the opening of his address to the Athenians, Acts 17:22, calls them, with kindly ambiguity, κατά πάντα δεισιδαιμονεστέρους (namely, than the rest of the Greeks (Winer's Grammar, 244 (229)), cf. Meyer at the passage), as being devout without the knowledge of the true God; cf. Bengel at the passage.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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