Lexicon deilia: cowardice Original Word: δειλία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: deilia Phonetic Spelling: (di-lee'-ah) Short Definition: cowardice Definition: cowardice, timidity. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1167 deilía – timidity, reticence (used only in 2 Tim 1:7). See 1169 (deilós). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom deilosDefinitioncowardice NASB Translationtimidity (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1167: δειλίαδειλία, δειλίας, ἡ ( δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7. ( Sophocles ( Herodotus), Euripides, ( Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.) [SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good interpretation, capable of an evil, and lying pretty evenly between the two; the third is quite predominantly used in a good sense, though it too has not altogether escaped being employed in an evil." Trench, § x, which see; cf. δέος.]
Strong's fear. From deilos; timidity -- fear. see GREEK deilos |
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