What does εὐλάβεια (eulábeia) mean in the Bible?
εὐλάβεια (eulábeia): Caution and reverence combined: careful fear that leads to both discretion and piety toward God.
Greek · G2124
εὐλάβεια
Reverence
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εὐλάβειαG2124
Pronunciationeulábeia
What does εὐλάβεια (eulábeia) mean in the Bible?
εὐλάβεια (eulábeia): Caution and reverence combined: careful fear that leads to both discretion and piety toward God.
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How does the BSB render G2124?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include reverence (2).
Where does εὐλάβεια (eulábeia) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Hebrews 5:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itreverence2×Hebrews 5:7, Hebrews 12:28
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First aligned rowHebrews 5:7
Aligned rows2
Books represented1
Hebrews2
Source forms
εὐλαβείας2xeulabeiasHebrews 5:7, Hebrews 12:28
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular2xHebrews 5:7, Hebrews 12:28
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Caution and reverence combined: careful fear that leads to both discretion and piety toward God.
Strong'sG2124
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
reverence
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Hebrews 5:7Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
εὐλαβείας,eulabeiav
reverence, piety
Read verseHebrews 12:28Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
εὐλαβείας·eulabeiav
reverence, piety
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 forms2Case patternGenitive (2)Number patternSingular (2)
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Genitive · Singular · FeminineHeb 5:7 · Heb 12:282×
Word Origins
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