noun · feminine
ethelothrēskias
Strong’sG1479
arbitrary worship
stem ethelothrēski-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.
*† ἐθελο-θρησκία (Rec. -εία), -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1479 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
will-worship, self-chosen service, NT
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 | ethelothrēskias | ethelothrēskiais |
| object accusative | ethelothrēskian | ethelothrēskiain |
| direct address vocative | ethelothrēskiar | ethelothrēskiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ethelothrēskiau | ethelothrēskiaiu |
| to, for dative | ethelothrēskia1×ἐθελοθρησκίᾳ | ethelothrēskiai |
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
ethelothrēskia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ethelothrēskia“self-made religion”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 2:23“self-made religion”… atō logon men echarōnteim sofiau en ethelothrēskia kai tapeinofrosuna kai afeidia sōmeu, ouk …Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no …