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Strong's #2151 - εὐσεβέω
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- to act piously or reverently
- towards God, one's country, magistrates, relations, and all to whom dutiful regard or reverence is due
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εὐσεβ-έω,
live or act piously or reverently, abs., Thgn. 145, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.8 (Locr., V B.C.), S. Aj. 1350, etc.; εἴς τινα towards one, Id. Ant. 731; περί τινα E. Alc. 1148; περὶ θεούς Pl. Smp. 193a; πρὸς τὸν θεόν Men. Mon. 567; πρὸς θεούς AP 10.107 (E.); εὐ. τὰ πρὸς θεούς S. Ph. 1441; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεούς Isoc. 3.2; of outward acts of service, θύουσα καὶ εὐσεβοῦσα τοῖς θεοῖς PRyl. 112 (a). 4 (iii A.D.); εὐ. θεούς to reverence them, A. Ag. 338 (nisi leg. εὖ σέβειν) ; εὐσεβήσασαν τὴν θεόν BCH 44.77 (Lagina): — Pass., εὐσεβεῖσθαι to be reverenced, Antipho 3.3.11, Ph. 2.201; of a duty, to be reverently discharged, Pl. Ax. 364c.
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, 1 Timothy 5:4; Θεόν, to worship God, Acts 17:23; 4 Macc. 5:24 (23) variant;
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** εὐ -σεβέω , -ῶ
(< εὐσεβής , q.v.),
[in LXX: Da LXX Sus 1:64, 4 Maccabees 9:6 א R, 4 Maccabees 11:5; 4 Maccabees 11:8; 4 Maccabees 11:23; 4 Maccabees 18:2*;]
to reverence, show piety towards; c. acc (elsewhere more freq. seq. εἰς ., περί , πρός ): οἶκον , 1 Timothy 5:4; θεόν , Acts 17:23 (Cremer, 525).†
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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 Acts 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.
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