King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER G1174
Transliteration: deisidaimōn
Phonetic Spelling: (dice-ee-dahee-mon-es'-ter-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious
Meaning: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious
δεισιδαίμων, δεισιδαιμον, genitive δεισιδαιμονος (δείδω to fear, and δαίμων deity), fearing the deity or deities, like the Latinreligiosus; used either
Word Summary
deisidaimōn: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious
Original Word: δεισιδαίμωνTransliteration: deisidaimōn
Phonetic Spelling: (dice-ee-dahee-mon-es'-ter-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious
Meaning: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious
Strong's Concordance
devout, religious, superstitious. The compound of a derivative of the base of deilos and daimon; more religious than others -- too superstitious.
see GREEK deilos
see GREEK daimon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1174: δεισιδαίμωνδεισιδαίμων, δεισιδαιμον, genitive δεισιδαιμονος (δείδω to fear, and δαίμων deity), fearing the deity or deities, like the Latinreligiosus; used either
1. in a good sense, reverencing god or the gods, pious, religious: Xenophon, Cyril 3, 3, 58; Ages. 11, 8; Aristotle, pol. 5, 11 (p. 1315a, 1); or
2. in a bad sense, superstitious: Theophrastus, char. 16 (22); Diodorus 1, 62; 4, 51; Plutarch, de adul. c. 16; de superstit. c. 10f Paul in the opening of his address to the Athenians, Acts 17:22, calls them, with kindly ambiguity, κατά πάντα δεισιδαιμονεστέρους (namely, than the rest of the Greeks (Winer's Grammar, 244 (229)), cf. Meyer at the passage), as being devout without the knowledge of the true God; cf. Bengel at the passage.