εὐσεβής
eusebḗs · G2152 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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devout, pious, religious
Pertaining to being devoted to a proper expression of religious beliefs
ExamplesActs 10:2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and made many charitable contributions to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.
Acts 10:7 When the angel who spoke to him left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier from his personal attendants,
2 Peter 2:9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ῥύομαιto rescue 1
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 3 words
- εὐλαβής eulabḗs · G2126 · reverent, pious
- The target term εὐσεβής and εὐλαβής (“taking well, i.e. carefully; circumspect, religiously pious”) both denote religiously devout conduct; the target denotes reverent devotion more broadly, while εὐλαβής emphasizes careful circumspection — a real but minor distinguishing feature within near-interchangeable piety vocabulary.
- θρησκός thrēskós · G2357 · devout, pious, religious
- Both terms describe religious devotion, but θρησκός emphasizes the outward, demonstrative aspects of ceremonial worship while εὐσεβής focuses on proper reverence and piety as an attitude or disposition.
- ἱεροπρεπής hieroprepḗs · G2412 · devout, pious, religious
- Both terms describe conduct or character marked by proper religious reverence, within New Testament usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Devout, pious, religious53.6
- In Acts 10:2, Cornelius is described as “a devout man and one who feared God with all his household,” naming his reverent, pious character.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυσεβες (εὖ and σέβομαι), pious, dutiful (toward God (A. V. devout, godly); εὐσεβέω):…
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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