ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΣ, θρησκειας
THRĒSKEIAS, thrēskeias
Sounds Like: thrays-KAY-ahss
Translations: (of) religion, (of) worship, (of) religious observance, (of) piety, a religion
From the root: ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to religion, worship, or religious observance. It describes the outward expression of one's devotion to a deity or a set of beliefs, often involving rituals, practices, and a system of faith. It is used to speak about the practice or system of a particular faith.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2356 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:120
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 5:13
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 13:223, 13:234, 19:316
- Book 2 — 9:211
- Book 4 — 4:74
- Book 5 — 1:98
- Book 8 — 8:225, 8:229, 10:239, 10:251, 11:279
- Book 9 — 6:138
- Book 11 — 4:85
- Book 12 — 6:271, 7:324
- Book 13 — 3:66, 6:198, 6:199, 8:244
- Book 15 — 7:248
- Book 16 — 2:45, 6:174
- Book 18 — 8:287
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:8, 8:10
- Book Two — 10:15, 16:59, 17:21
- Book Four — 5:20
- Book Five — 5:46
- Book Six — 2:8
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΘΡΗΣΕΙΑΝ — religion, a religion, worship, a worship, religious observance, a religious observance
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ — religion, worship, religious observance, a religion
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΙΣ — (to) religion, (to) worship, (to) religious observance, (to) piety
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΝ — religion, a religion, religious worship, piety
- ΘΡΗΣΚΙΑΣ — (of) religion, (of) worship, (of) a religion, (of) a worship
- ΤΗΣΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΣ — (of) religion, (of) worship, (of) piety, (of) a religion
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