Word Summary
eusebeō: to show piety towards
Original Word: εὐσεβέωTransliteration: eusebeō
Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-seb-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to show piety towards
Meaning: to show piety towards
Strong's Concordance
show piety, worship.
From eusebes; to be pious, i.e. (towards God) to worship, or (towards parents) to respect (support) -- show piety, worship.
see GREEK eusebes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2151: εὐσεβέωεὐσεβέω,
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;
; (Josephus, contra Apion 2, 11, 1).