What does δεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonía) mean in the Bible?
δεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonía): Fear-based religious devotion ranging from genuine piety to mere superstition depending on context.
Greek · G1175
δεισιδαιμονία
δεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonía): Fear-based religious devotion ranging from genuine piety to mere superstition depending on context.
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δεισιδαιμονίαG1175
Pronunciationdeisidaimonía
What does δεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonía) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G1175?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include religion (1).
Where does δεισιδαιμονία (deisidaimonía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 25:19. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Itreligion1×Acts 25:19
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First aligned rowActs 25:19
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Books represented1
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Source forms
δεισιδαιμονίας1xdeisidaimoniasActs 25:19
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xActs 25:19
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Fear-based religious devotion ranging from genuine piety to mere superstition depending on context.
Strong'sG1175
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Study linkActs 25:13-22Source Gloss
religion
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Fear-based religious devotion ranging from genuine piety to mere superstition depending on context.
(δεισιδαίμων, which see);
1fear of the gods;
apiety, religion;
bsuperstition.
2Objectively, a religion: Act.25:19 (Cremer, 72, 682).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 25:19Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
δεισιδαιμονίαςdeisidaimoniav
religion in general, superstition
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineActs 25:191×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
Religious belief or superstition.
Word Origins
δεισιδαιμονία is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Reflects Festus’ framing of Jewish disputes.Acts 25:13-22