eusebos

Strong’sG2152

pious, God-fearing

stem euseb-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.

εὐσεβής, -ές

(< εὖ, σέβομαι), [in LXX: Pr 12:12, Is 24:16 26:7 (צַדִּיק), Mi 7:2 (חָסִיד), Is 32:8 (נָדִיב), and freq. in Si and IV Mac;]

pious, godly, devout: Ac 10:2, 7, II Pe 2:9.†

SYN.: θεοσεβής, θρῆσκος (v. Tr., Syn., § xlviii; DB, ii, 221 f.; Cremer, 524 f., 858)

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

Strong’s G2152 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidyoo-seb-ace'

well-reverent, i.e. pious

Fromfrom G2095 and G4576;

King Jamesdevout, godly.

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

εὐσεβ-ής, ές
(dative plural - σεβέοις Refs, (σέβω) pious, religious, opposed to δυσσεβής (which see), Refs 6th c.BC+: not common in early Prose, Refs 5th c.BC+; dutiful, especially discharging sacred duties, πρός or ἔς τινα, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀνὴρ εὐ. (variant{εὐλαβής}) κατὰ τὸν νόμον NT more righteous in act, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ τῶν εὐσεβῶν χῶρος, of a place in the nether world, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν εὐσεβέων (i.e. χώρῳ) Refs 3rd c.BC+
b Astrology texts, αἱ τῶν εὐσεβῶν μοῖραι Refs
2 as epithet of Emperors, = Pius, Refs 3rd c.AD+; especially of Antoninus Pius, Refs
2.b of taxes, etc., due to the Emperor, Refs 4th c.AD+
3 metaphorically, of a piece of land, dutiful, i.e. productive, ἀγρὸν -έστερον γεωργεῖν οὐδ᾽ ἕνα οἶμαι Refs 4th c.BC+
II ofacts, things, etc., holy, sacred, ταῦτά μοὐστὶν εὐσεβῆ θεῶν πάρα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν εὐσεβεῖ [ἐστι] c.infinitive, Refs; τὸ εὐ., ={εὐσέβεια}, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ὑμέτερον εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τοὐμὸν εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τιτῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐσεβῶν παραβαίνειν Philipp. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+
III adverb εὐσεβέως, Attic dialect -βῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐσεβῶς ἔχει, for εὐσεβές ἐστι, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -έστερον Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -έστατα Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

devout2×godly1×

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	eusebos1×εὐσεβὴς	eusebas	eusebem	eusebois	eusebais	eusebeim
object accusative	eusebon1×εὐσεβῆ	euseban		euseboin1×εὐσεβεῖς	eusebain
direct address vocative	eusebor	eusebar		euseboir	eusebair
of, belonging to genitive	eusebou	eusebau	eusebeu	euseboiu	eusebaiu	eusebeiu
to, for dative	eusebo	euseba	eusebe	euseboi	eusebai	eusebei

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

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

euseb 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.

eusebamō — εὐσεβέω, I am dutiful, pious

Where it appears

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

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

eusebos“devout”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 10:2eusebos kai foborōntos ton theon sun panto …He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to …

eusebon“devout”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 10:7… fōnarantos duo toiu oiketoiu kai stratiōton eusebon toiu proskarterarōntoiu auto… two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.

euseboin“godly”objectaccusative plural1×

2 Peter 2:9oidatē kurios euseboin ek peirasmou ruorō, adikoin de eis …… Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the …