adjective
theosebos
Strong’sG2318
devout, pious
stem theoseb-once in the New Testament1 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.
θεοσεβής, -ές
(< θεός, σέβομαι), [in LXX for אֱלֹהִים יְרֵא, Ex 18:21, al.;]
SYN.: εὐσεβής (q.v.), θρῆσκος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2318 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fearing God, religious, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -βῶςRefs 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.
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 | theosebos1×θεοσεβὴς | theosebas | theosebem | theosebois | theosebais | theosebeim |
| object accusative | theosebon | theoseban | theoseboin | theosebain | ||
| direct address vocative | theosebor | theosebar | theoseboir | theosebair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | theosebou | theosebau | theosebeu | theoseboiu | theosebaiu | theosebeiu |
| to, for dative | theosebo | theoseba | theosebe | theoseboi | theosebai | theosebei |
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
theoseb 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
theosebos“god-fearing”subjectnominative singular1×
John 9:31“god-fearing”… theos ouk akouatō, alla ean tinos theosebos ateiō kai tem thelēmem autou poiateiō …… know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.