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Greek adjective · G2319

θεοστυγής

theostygestheh-os-too-gace'

passive, as frequently in cl.; Active, hating God

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: theostygḗs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2319is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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    New Testament books
  • 1
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The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2319

hateful to God, i.e. impious

The King James renders it: hater of God.

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

theostyges is rendered "passive, as frequently in cl.; Active, hating God". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "passive, as frequently in cl.".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

The first use

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

Romans 1:30θεοστυγεῖς

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.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: passive, as frequently in cl., and Active, hating God.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
passive, as frequently in cl.hateful to GodTagged as
  • hateful to God1
WhereRomans 1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil…
Active, hating GodTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

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.

θεοσεβήςtheosebesgodlyUses1
θεοσέβειαtheosebeiareverence for GodUses1

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • θεοστυγεῖς1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM

Romans

one use
  • slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

    Romans 1:30

    • θεοστυγεῖςtheostugeisadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: hateful to God

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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