noun · feminine
deisidaimonias
Greekδεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonia)
Strong’sG1175
religion in general, superstition
stem deisidaimoni-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† δεισιδαιμονία, -ας, ἡ
(< δεισιδαίμων, q.v.);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1175 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddice-ee-dahee-mon-ee'-ah
religion
Fromfrom the same as G1174;
King Jamessuperstition.
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 | deisidaimonias | deisidaimoniais |
| object accusative | deisidaimonian | deisidaimoniain |
| direct address vocative | deisidaimoniar | deisidaimoniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | deisidaimoniau1×δεισιδαιμονίας | deisidaimoniaiu |
| to, for dative | deisidaimonia | deisidaimoniai |
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
deisidaimonia 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
deisidaimoniau“religion”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 25:19“religion”zētēmeim de tineim peri tau idiau deisidaimoniau echale pros auton kai peri tinou Iēsu thnēskarētou, hon faskate tos Paulos zōarō.They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.