noun · feminine
deilias
Strong’sG1167
cowardice
stem deili-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δειλία, -ας, ἡ
(< δειλός), [in LXX for אֵימָה, מְחִתָּה, etc.;]
SYN.: φόβος, fear, in general, good or bad; εὐλάβεια (q.v.), apprehension generally, but chiefly pious fear, "that careful and watchful reverence which pays regard to every circumstance in that with which it has to deal" (cf. Tr., Syn., § x).†
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1167 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddi-lee'-ah
timidity
Fromfrom G1169;
King Jamesfear.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
timidity, cowardice, Refs 5th c.BC+; δειλίην ὀφλεῖν to be charged with cowardice, Refs 5th c.BC+; δειλίας ὀφλεῖν (i.e. δίκην) Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔνοχος δειλίας (i.e. δίκῃ) Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀνδρεία, θρασύτης, Refs 5th c.BC+
II misery, Refs 6th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | deilias | deiliais |
| object accusative | deilian | deiliain |
| direct address vocative | deiliar | deiliair |
| of, belonging to genitive | deiliau1×δειλίας | deiliaiu |
| to, for dative | deilia | deiliai |
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
deilia 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
deiliau“fear”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Timothy 1:7… gar dōata ni tos theos pneumem deiliau, alla dunamiau kai agapau kai sōfronismou.… not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.