θρησκός
thrēskós · G2357 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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devout, pious, religious
Pertaining to being devoted to a proper expression of religious beliefs
ExamplesJames 1:26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- εὐσεβής eusebḗs · G2152 · devout, pious, religious
- The target term θρησκός and εὐσεβής (“well-reverent, pious”) both denote religious devotion within the same narrow domain; θρησκός emphasizes outward or ceremonial religious observance, while εὐσεβής focuses on internal, reverent disposition — a standard contrast in Greek religious vocabulary between demonstrative practice and attitudinal piety.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Devout, pious, religious53.6
- In James 1:26, it is written, “If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person's religion is worthless,” using this word for one who observes religious devotion.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH θρησκός, cf. (Tdf. Proleg., p. 101); Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 e.; Lipsius, Grammat.…
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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