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Strong's #1167 - δειλία
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- timidity, fearfulness, cowardice
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δειλία, ἡ,
I. timidity, cowardice, Hdt. 1.37, S. OT 536, etc.; δειλίην ὀφλεῖν to be charged with cowardice, Hdt. 8.26; δειλίας ὀφλεῖν (sc. δίκην) And. 1.74; ἔνοχος δειλίας (sc. δίκῃ) Lys. 1.45; opp. ἀνδρεία, θρασύτης, Pl. Lg. 648b, Ti. 87a.
II misery, Procop. Goth. 4.32.
δειλία, δειλίας, ἡ (δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7. (Sophocles (Herodotus), Euripides, (Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.) [SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good interpretation, capable of an evil, and lying pretty evenly between the two; the third is quite predominantly used in a good sense, though it too has not altogether escaped being employed in an evil." Trench, § x, which see; cf. δέος.]
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δειλία , -ας , ἡ
(< δειλός ),
[in LXX for H367, H4288, etc.;]
cowardice, timidity (never in good sense): 2 Timothy 1:7.†
SYN.: φόβος G5401, fear, in general, good or bad; εὐλάβεια G2124 (q.v.), apprehension generally, but chiefly pious fear, "that careful and watchful reverence which pays regard to every circumstance in that with which it has to deal" (cf. Tr., Syn., § x). †
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For this NT ἅπ . εἰρ . (2 Timothy 1:7) cf. BGU II. 372i. 26 (A.D. 154) δειλίαν with a gap both before and after, and P Giss I. 40ii. 11 (A.D. 215) δειλίας αἰτία .
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