Quick Definition
I am dutiful, pious
Strong's Definition
to be pious, i.e. (towards God) to worship, or (towards parents) to respect (support)
Derivation: from G2152 (εὐσεβής);
KJV Usage: show piety, worship
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
εὐσεβέω, ἐυσεβω (εὐσεβής); "to be εὐσεβής (pious), to act piously or reverently" (toward God, one's country, magistrates, relations, and all to whom dutiful regard or reverence is due); in secular authors followed by εἰς, περί, πρός τινα; rarely also transitive, as Aeschylus Ag. 338 (τούς Θεούς) and in the Bible: τόν ἴδιον οἶκον, 1Ti_5:4; Θεόν, to worship God, Act_17:23; 4Ma_5:24 (23) variant; ; (Josephus, contra Apion 2, 11, 1).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
εὐσεβέω eusebeō 2x
to exercise piety; towards a deity, to worship, Act_17:23 ; towards relatives, to be dutiful towards, 1Ti_5:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** εὐ -σεβέω , -ῶ
( < εὐσεβής , q.v. ),
[in LXX : Da LXX Sus 1:64, 4Ma_9:6 ΰ R, 4Ma_11:5 ; 4Ma_11:8 ; 4Ma_11:23 ; 4Ma_18:2 * ;]
t o reverence, show piety towards; c . acc (else\-where more freq . seq . εἰς ., περί , πρός ): οἶκον , 1Ti_5:4 ; θεόν , Act_17:23 ( Cremer , 525).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
εὐσεβέω [page 265]
For the religious connotation of this verb, cf. two of the recently discovered libelli , P Ryl II. 112 ( a ) .4 (A.D. 250) καὶ ἀεὶ μὲν θύουσα καὶ εὐσεβοῦσα τοῖς θεοῖς διετέλεσα , ib. ( c ) .6 ἀεὶ μὲν τοῖς θεοῖς θύω καὶ εὐσεβῶ διατελοῦσα , where the dat. is due to θύειν . For the constr. with the acc., as in Act_17:23 , see a decree by Epaminondas attached to Nero s decree cited s.v. εὐσέβεια , where the Emperor is belauded as προειρημένος εὐεργετεῖν τὴν Ἑλ (λ )άδα , ἀμειβόμενος δὲ καὶ εὐσεβῶν τοὺς θεοὺς ἡμῶν παριστανομένους αὐτῷ πάντοτε ἐπὶ προνοίᾳ καὶ σωτηρίᾳ ( Syll 376 .36 ) : see also s.v. ἀσεβέω . The verb is followed by the more regular πρός in Michel 1558 .22 (iii/B.C.) πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς εὐσεβεῖν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
εὐσεβέω εὐσεβέω, φυτ. -ήσω "to live or act piously and religiously", Theogn. , Soph. , etc.; εἴς τινα towards one, id=Soph. ; εὐς. τὰ πρὸς θεούς in matters that respect the gods, id=Soph. :—also, εὐς. θεούς "to reverence" Them, Aesch. [Etym: from εὐσεβής]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
εὐ-σεβέω, -ῶ
(εὐσεβής, which see), [in LXX: Dan LXX Sus 1:64, 4Ma.9:6 אR, 4Ma.11:5 4Mac 11:8 4Mac 11:23 4Mac 18:2 * ;]
to reverence, show piety towards; with accusative (elsewhere more frequently before εἰς., περί, πρός): οἶκον, 1Ti.5:4; θεόν, Act.17:23 (Cremer, 525).†
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