θεοσέβεια
theosébeia · G2317 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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religion, piety
Appropriate beliefs and devout practice of obligations relating to supernatural persons and powers
Examples1 Timothy 2:10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
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
- ἐπαγγέλλωto promise 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 1 word
- εὐσέβεια eusébeia · G2150 · religion, piety, godliness
- The target term θεοσέβεια and εὐσέβεια (“piety”) both denote religious reverence or piety, θεοσέβεια being a transparent compound meaning “god-reverence” and εὐσέβεια its functional equivalent — both abstract nouns denoting the same concept of pious devotion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Religion, piety53.1
- In 1 Timothy 2:10, women are urged to adorn themselves “by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness,” using this word for reverent devotion toward God.
Word family 14 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θεοσεβείας, ἡ (θεοσεβής), reverence toward God, godliness: 1 Tim 2:10. (Xenophon, an. 2,…
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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