noun · feminine

aidōas

Greekαἰδώς (aidōs)

Strong’sG127

shame, modesty

stem aidō-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

modesty1×

What it means

** αἰδώς (-όος), -οῦς, ἡ,

[in LXX: III Mac 1:19 4:5*;]

a sense of shame, modesty: I Ti 2:9 (for exx., v. MM, VGT, s.v.).†

SYN.: αἰσχύνη (v. Thayer, 14; Tr., Syn., §xix; Cremer, 611 f.; CGT on I Ti 2:9).

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G127 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidahee-doce'

bashfulness, i.e. (towards men), modesty or (towards God) awe

Fromperhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and G1492 (through the idea of downcast eyes);

King Jamesreverence, shamefacedness.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	aidōas	aidōais
object accusative	aidōan	aidōain
direct address vocative	aidōar	aidōair
of, belonging to genitive	aidōau1×αἰδοῦς	aidōaiu
to, for dative	aidōa	aidōai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

aidōstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

aidōa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

aidōau“modesty”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

1 Timothy 2:9“modesty”hōsautōs kai gunaikain en katastola kosmia meta aidōau kai sōfrosunau kosmarō heautain, mē en plegmei kai chrusie ē margaritoi ē himatismo polutelo,Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,