What does εὐλαβής (eulabḗs) mean in the Bible?
εὐλαβής (eulabḗs): Devoutness rooted in cautious reverence; religious care taken to avoid offending God through carelessness
Greek · G2126
εὐλαβής
Devout
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εὐλαβής G2126
Pronunciation eulabḗs
What does εὐλαβής (eulabḗs) mean in the Bible?
εὐλαβής (eulabḗs): Devoutness rooted in cautious reverence; religious care taken to avoid offending God through carelessness
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2126?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include God-fearing (2), a devout (1), devout (1).
Where does εὐλαβής (eulabḗs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 2:25. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (3), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It God-fearing 2× Acts 2:5, Acts 8:2
a devout 1× Acts 22:12
devout 1× Luke 2:25
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 2:25
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 2
Luke 1 Acts 3
Source forms
εὐλαβεῖς 2x eulabeis Acts 2:5, Acts 8:2
εὐλαβής 1x eulabēs Luke 2:25
εὐλαβὴς 1x eulabēs Acts 22:12
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Acts 2:5, Acts 8:2
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular 2x Luke 2:25, Acts 22:12
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Devoutness rooted in cautious reverence; religious care taken to avoid offending God through carelessness
Strong's G2126
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 2 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
devout
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 2:25 Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
εὐλαβής, eulabhv
cautious, pious
Read verse Acts 2:5 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
εὐλαβεῖς, eulabeiv
cautious, pious
Read verse Acts 8:2 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
εὐλαβεῖς, eulabeiv
cautious, pious
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 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Nominative (4) Number pattern Plural (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Luke 2:25 · Acts 22:12 2×
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Acts 2:5 · Acts 8:2 2×
Word Origins
εὐλαβής is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain