noun · feminine
eulabeias
Strong’sG2124
reverence, piety
stem eulabei-2 times 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.
εὐλάβεια, -ας, ἡ
(< εὐλαβής), [in LXX: Je 22:24 (דְּאָגָה), Pr 28:14, Wi 17:8 *;]
SYN.: v.s. δειλία (q.v.), φόβος (cf. Cremer, 387 f., 759; DB, ii. 222).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2124 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-lab'-i-ah
properly, caution, i.e. (religiously) reverence (piety); by implication, dread (concretely)
Fromfrom G2126;
King Jamesfear(-ed).
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
Ionic dialect -ιηRefs 6th c.BC+:— discretion, caution, Refs 6th c.BC+; εὐλάβειαν ἔχειν μή.., ={εὐλαβεῖσθαι μή}.., Refs 5th c.BC+; so εὐ. αὕτη.. τὸ μὴ νέους.. γεύεσθαι caution to preuent their tasting, Refs; εὐλαβείας οὐ μικρᾶς δεῖται, εὐ. ἐστὶ πολλῆς, Refs 4th c.BC+; εὐ. ποιητέον περί τιναςRefs 1st c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ εὐλαβεία.. προείρηται by way of caution, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ εὐ. in Refs 4th c.BC+
2 with genitive, caution or discretion in a thing, πολλὴ εὐ. τούτων ποιητέα Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐλάβειαι πληγῶν auoidance of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν περιεχόντων εὐ. careful employment of.., Refs 1st c.BC+
3 reverence, piety, πρὸς or περὶ τὸ θεῖον, Refs 1st c.BC+: absolutely, godly fear, NT; religious scruple, οὐδεμίαν εὐ. προορωμένων Refs 2nd c.BC+
3.b astitle, ἡ σὴ εὐ. your reverence, Refs 6th c.AD+
4 in bad sense, over-caution, timidity, Refs 1st 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 | eulabeias | eulabeiais |
| object accusative | eulabeian | eulabeiain |
| direct address vocative | eulabeiar | eulabeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | eulabeiau2×εὐλαβείας | eulabeiaiu |
| to, for dative | eulabeia | eulabeiai |
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
eulabeia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
eulabeiau“reverence”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Hebrews 5:7… dakrueiu prosferarantos kai eisakouirantos apo tau eulabeiau,… He was heard because of His reverence.
Hebrews 12:28… hau latreuaneiō euarestōs to theo meta eulabeiau kai deeu,… and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.