Greek noun (feminine) · G1479
ἐθελοθρησκεία
ethelothreskeiaeth-el-oth-race-ki'-ah
self-made religion
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ethelothrēskeía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1479is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1479
voluntary (arbitrary and unwarranted) piety, i.e. sanctimony
The King James renders it: will worship.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ethelothreskeia is rendered "self-made religion". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Colossians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Colossians 2:23Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
The first use
Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Colossians 2:23ἐθελοθρησκίᾳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- self-imposed worship1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
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How it is spelled
- ἐθελοθρησκίᾳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Colossians
one use
Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
- ἐθελοθρησκίᾳethelothreskianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: self-imposed worship
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.