εὐσέβεια
godliness
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (47%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (20%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 2 times (13%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (13%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2150 appears — 15 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
1 Timothy 8 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:2 εὐσεβείᾳ n dat sg fem for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
- 1 Timothy 3:16 εὐσεβείας n gen sg fem Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, And received up in glory.
- 1 Timothy 4:7 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 εὐσέβεια n nom sg fem For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- 1 Timothy 6:3 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
- 1 Timothy 6:5 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
- 1 Timothy 6:6 εὐσέβεια n nom sg fem But godliness with contentment is great gain.
- 1 Timothy 6:11 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
2 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
2 Peter 4 verses
- 2 Peter 1:3 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
- 2 Peter 1:6 εὐσέβειαν n acc sg fem and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
- 2 Peter 1:7 εὐσεβείᾳ n dat sg fem and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
- 2 Peter 3:11 εὐσεβείαις n dat pl fem Therefore since all these things are thus to be destroyed, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ευσεβεια (eusébeia) means “godliness.” Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Timothy (53% of all occurrences). With 15 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Acts 3:12, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2150 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 27%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Godliness 14×
- American Standard Version: Godliness 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Godliness 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Godliness 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2150 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2150 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2150 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2150 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- reverence, respect
- piety towards God, godliness
Word origin
Derived from ευσεβης (eusebḗs) (G2152) — pious.
From G2152 ; piety ; specifically the gospel scheme : - godliness holiness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2150 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐσέβειαν eusébeian | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 4:7 | 7 |
| εὐσεβείᾳ eusebeía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 3:12 | 3 |
| εὐσέβεια eusébeia | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 4:8 | 2 |
| εὐσεβείας eusebeías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 3:16 | 2 |
| εὐσεβείαις eusebeíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 2 Peter 3:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2150, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευσεβεια appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 2 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 1:7 εὐσέβεια
- Isaiah 11:2 εὐσέβεια
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2150) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 1:7 εὐσέβεια The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 13:11 εὐσέβεια Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, But he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
- Isaiah 11:2 εὐσέβεια The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 33:6 εὐσέβεια There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2150) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
