deilos

Strong’sG1169

cowardly, timid

stem deil-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

δειλός, -ή, όν

(< δέος), [in LXX for רַךְ, etc.;]

cowardly, fearful: Mt 8:26, Mk 4:40, Re 21:8.†

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

Strong’s G1169 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddi-los'

timid, i.e. (by implication) faithless

Fromfrom δεός (dread);

King Jamesfearful.

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

δειλός, ή, όν,
(δέος):
I of persons, cowardly, opposed to ἄλκιμος, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἀνδρεῖος, Refs 5th c.BC+: hence, vile, worthless, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἐσθλός, lowborn, mean, Refs 8th c.BC+; of animals, Refs 5th c.BC+afraid of.., Refs: c.infinitive Refs 1st c.BC+. adverb -λῶςRefs 3rd c.BC+
I.2 more commonly, miserable, wretched, with a compassionate sense, δειλοὶ βροτοί poor mortals! Refs 8th c.BC+; ἆ δειλέ poor wretch! ἆ δειλοί poor wretches! Refs 8th c.BC+
II of things, miserable, wretched, γῆρας Refs 8th c.BC+; δ. δ᾽ ἐνὶ πυθμένι φειδώRefs 5th c.BC+; ἔργα, λόγος, etc., Refs 6th c.BC+: comparative, Refs 3rd c.AD+: superlative, Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, ὀχλεῖ μοι δειλὰ ὁ Τρωΐλος Refs 3rd c.AD+ —Trag. use δειλός chiefly in former sense, δείλαιος in latter.

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.

afraid2×cowardly1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	deilos	deilas	deilem	deilois2×δειλοί	deilais	deileim
object accusative	deilon	deilan		deiloin	deilain
direct address vocative	deilor	deilar		deiloir	deilair
of, belonging to genitive	deilou	deilau	deileu	deiloiu	deilaiu	deileiu
to, for dative	deilo	deila	deile	deiloi1×δειλοῖς	deilai	deilei

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

deilstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

deil 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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

deilois“afraid”subjectnominative plural2×

Matthew 8:26kai legatō autoi; Tinem deilois avō, oligopistoir? tote egerirantos epitimata toi …… Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked …

Mark 4:40kai legata autoi; Tinem deilois avō? oupō echavō pistian?“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have …

deiloi“cowardly”to, fordative plural1×

Revelation 21:8toi de deiloi kai apistoi kai bdelussorēntoi kai fonevoi …But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers …