Word Summary
eusebeia: piety
Original Word: εὐσέβειαTransliteration: eusebeia
Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-seb'-i-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: piety
Meaning: piety
Strong's Concordance
godliness, holiness.
From eusebes; piety; specially, the gospel scheme -- godliness, holiness.
see GREEK eusebes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2150: εὐσέβειαεὐσέβεια,
εὐσεβείας,
ἡ (
εὐσεβής),
reverence, respect; in the Bible everywhere
piety toward God, godliness:
Acts 3:12;
1 Timothy 2:2;
1 Timothy 4:7, 8;
1 Timothy 6:5f, 11;
2 Timothy 3:5;
2 Peter 1:3, 6f;
ἡ κατ' εὐσέβειαν διδασκαλία, the doctrine that promotes godliness,
1 Timothy 6:3 (see
κατά, II. 3 d.);
ἡ ἀλήθεια ἡ κατ' εὐσέβειαν, the truth that leads to godliness,
Titus 1:1;
τό μυστήριον τῆς εὐσεβείας, the mystery which is held by godliness and nourishes it,
1 Timothy 3:16; in plural, aims and acts of godliness,
2 Peter 3:11; cf. Pfieiderer, Paulinism., p. 477f (English translation, ii. 209f). (
Aeschylus,
Sophocles,
Xenophon,
Plato, and following; often in
Josephus; the
Sept. Proverbs 1:7;
Proverbs 13:11;
Isaiah 11:2; Wis. 10:12; often in 4 Macc.;
πρός τόν Θεόν,
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 2; (
περί τό θεῖον) contra Apion 1, 22, 2;
εἰς Θεούς καί γονεας,
Plato, rep. 10, p. 615 c.) (Cf.
Schmidt, chapter 181.)