Greek adjective · G2126
εὐλαβής
eulabesyoo-lab-ace'
cautious, circumspect.; devout, religious, reverent
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eulabḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2126is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2126
taking well (carefully), i.e. circumspect (religiously, pious)
The King James renders it: devout.
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
eulabes is rendered "cautious, circumspect.; devout, religious, reverent". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "cautious, circumspect.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Luke 2:25εὐλαβὴς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: cautious, circumspect., and devout, religious, reverent.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| cautious, circumspect. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout… |
| devout, religious, reverentAct.2:5 8:2 22:12; δίκαιος καὶ εὐ., Luk.2:25.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout… |
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐλάβεια | eulabeia | reverence | Uses2 |
| εὐλαβέομαι | eulabeomai | to revere | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- εὐλαβεῖς2
- εὐλαβὴς2
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
Luke
one use
Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- εὐλαβὴςeulabesadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: devout
Acts
three uses
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
- εὐλαβεῖςeulabeisadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: devout
God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
- εὐλαβεῖςeulabeisadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: devout
There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,
- εὐλαβὴςeulabesadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: devout
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.