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Strong's #1175 - δεισιδαιμονία
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- in a good sense
- reverencing god or the gods, pious, religious
- in a bad sense
- superstitious
- religious
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δεισῐδαιμ-ονία, ἡ,
1. fear of the gods, religious feeling, Plb. 6.56.7, Phld. Herc. 1251.10, CIG 2737b11 (Aphrodisias), D.S. 1.70, etc.; ἡ τῶν θεῶν δ. Id. 11.89.
2. in bad sense, superstition, Thphr. Char. 16, Plb. 12.24.5; ἡ πρὸς τὰ ζῷα δ. D.S. 1.83; περὶ Δεισιδαιμονίας, title of work by Plu.
δεισιδαιμονία, δεισιδαιμονίας, ἡ (δεισιδαίμων), fear of the gods;
1. in a good sense, reverence for the gods, piety, religion: Polybius 6, 56, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 10, 3, 2; καί θεοφιλής βίος, Diodorus 1, 70.
2. equivalent to ἡ δειλία πρός τό δαιμόνιον (Theophrastus, char. 16 (22) at the beginning (cf. Jebb, p. 263f)); superstition: (Polybius 12, 24, 5); Plutarch (Sol. 12, 4); Alex. 75, 1; de adulat. et am. 25, and in his Essay περί τῆς δεισιδαιμονίας; Antoninus 6, 30 θεοσεβής χωρίς δεισιδαιμονίας.
3. religion, in an objective sense; in which sense Josephus, Antiquities 19, 5, 3, says Claudius commanded the Jews μή τάς τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν δεισιδαιμονίας ἐξουδενίζειν. Festus in the presence of Agrippa the Jewish king employs the word ambiguously and cautiously, in Acts 25:19, of the Jewish religion, viz. so as to leave his own judgment concerning its truth in suspense. Cf. Zezschwitz, Profangräcität u. Biblical Sprachgeist, p. 59; (K. F. Hermann, Lehrb. d. gottesdienstl. Alterthümer, § 8 note 6; Trench, § xlviii.; (cf. Kenrick, Biblical Essays, 1864, p. 108ff; Field, Otium Norv. iii., p. 80f)).
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*† δεισιδαιμονία , -ας , ἡ ,
(< δεισιδαίμων , q.v.);
1. fear of the gods;
(a) piety, religion;
(b) superstition.
2. Objectively, a religion: Acts 25:19 (Cremer, 72, 682).†
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In OGIS 455.11 (B.C. 39) a temple-enclosure of the goddess Aphrodite is declared ἄσυλον —ταὐτῷ δικαίῳ ταὐτῇ τε δεισιδαιμονίᾳ , ";eodem jure eademque religione"; as the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. It is in this general sense of ";religion,"; without any pronouncement as to whether it was right or wrong, that the word is to be understood in Acts 25:19.
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