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θεοσεβής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεοσεβής θεοσεβές

Structure: θεοσεβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: se/bw

Sense

  1. fearing God, religious

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τῆσ θεοσεβοῦσ Ἁβραὰμ καρτερίασ ἡ θυγάτηρ ἐμνήσθη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:28)
  • οἱο͂ν ὅταν ἐξ ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ θεοσεβοῦσ ἀσεβὴσ γένηται, ἆρ’ οὐχ ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖσ ἔμπροσθεν, κἂν ἵπποσ βοὸσ ἔκγονον τέκῃ, οὐ τοῦ τεκόντοσ δήπου ἔδει τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ἔχειν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ γένουσ οὗ εἰή; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 68:5)

Synonyms

  1. fearing God

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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