Strong’s G2152 · Greek
εὐσεβής
eusebḗs · yoo-seb-ace'
Origin from εὖ (G2095) and σέβομαι (G4576);
Meaning well-reverent, i.e. pious
In the King James Version devout, godly.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 10:2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
- Acts 10:7And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
- Acts 22:12And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
- 2 Peter 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.