Lexical Summary deisidaimōn: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious Original Word: δεισιδαίμωνTransliteration: deisidaimōn Phonetic Spelling: (dice-ee-dahee-mon-es'-ter-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious Meaning: very fearful of gods, religious, superstitious Strong's Concordance devout, religious, superstitious. The compound of a derivative of the base of deilos and daimon; more religious than others -- too superstitious. see GREEK deilos see GREEK daimon Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1174: δεισιδαίμωνδεισιδαίμων, δεισιδαιμον, genitive δεισιδαιμονος (δείδω to fear, and δαίμων deity), fearing the deity or deities, like the Latinreligiosus; used either 1. in a good sense, reverencing god or the gods, pious, religious: Xenophon, Cyril 3, 3, 58; Ages. 11, 8; Aristotle, pol. 5, 11 (p. 1315a, 1); or 2. in a bad sense, superstitious: Theophrastus, char. 16 (22); Diodorus 1, 62; 4, 51; Plutarch, de adul. c. 16; de superstit. c. 10f Paul in the opening of his address to the Athenians, Acts 17:22, calls them, with kindly ambiguity, κατά πάντα δεισιδαιμονεστέρους (namely, than the rest of the Greeks (Winer's Grammar, 244 (229)), cf. Meyer at the passage), as being devout without the knowledge of the true God; cf. Bengel at the passage. |
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