δεισιδαιμονία
deisidaimonía · G1175 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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religion
A set of beliefs concerning deity, with the implication of corresponding behavior
ExamplesActs 25:19 but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἴδιοςone’s own 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- περίconcerning, about, for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- θρησκεία thrēskeía · G2356 · religion, piety
- Standard Greek term for religion or religious observance; overlaps with δεισιδαιμονία in denoting religious practice or devotion, though θρησκεία is more neutral while δεισιδαιμονία can carry either positive (piety) or negative (superstition) connotations depending on context
- εὐσέβεια eusébeia · G2150 · religion, piety, godliness
- Denotes piety, reverence toward God, religious devotion; semantically overlaps with the positive sense of δεισιδαιμονία (religious reverence), though εὐσέβεια is consistently positive while δεισιδαιμονία is ambiguous
In the other Testament 1 word
- יִרְאָה yirʼâh · H3374 · fear
- Hebrew term for fear/reverence of God, the standard rendering for religious piety in the LXX context; δεισιδαιμονία etymologically means 'fear of deities' and can denote religious reverence (as in Acts 25:19 where it refers to the Jewish religion)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Religion53.2
- Used of a system of religious belief and practice, as of the disputed points about the Jews' own religion described before Festus in Acts 25:19.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δεισιδαιμονίας, ἡ (δεισιδαίμων), fear of the gods; 1. in a good sense, reverence for the…
1. in a good sense, reverence for the gods, piety, religion: Polybius 6, 56, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 10, 3, 2; καί θεοφιλής βίος, Diodorus 1, 70.
2. equivalent to ἡ δειλία πρός τό δαιμόνιον (Theophrastus, char. 16 (22) at the beginning (cf. Jebb, p. 263f)); superstition: (Polybius 12, 24, 5); Plutarch (Sol. 12, 4); Alex. 75, 1; de adulat. et am. 25, and in his Essay περί τῆς δεισιδαιμονίας; Antoninus 6, 30 θεοσεβής χωρίς δεισιδαιμονίας.
3. religion, in an objective sense; in which sense Josephus, Antiquities 19, 5, 3, says Claudius commanded the Jews μή τάς τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν δεισιδαιμονίας ἐξουδενίζειν. Festus in the presence of Agrippa the Jewish king employs the word ambiguously and cautiously, in Acts 25:19, of the Jewish religion, viz. so as to leave his own judgment concerning its truth in suspense. Cf. Zezschwitz, Profangräcität u. Biblical Sprachgeist, p. 59; (K. F. Hermann, Lehrb. d. gottesdienstl. Alterthümer, § 8 note 6; Trench, § xlviii.; (cf. Kenrick, Biblical Essays, 1864, p. 108ff; Field, Otium Norv. iii., p. 80f)).
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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