ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ, θρησκεια
THRĒSKEIA, thrēskeia
Sounds Like: thrays-KAY-ah
Translations: religion, worship, religious observance, a religion
From the root: ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to religion or religious worship, specifically emphasizing the outward expression and practice of one's faith. It denotes the system of religious beliefs and practices, or the act of performing religious duties and rituals. It can be used to describe a specific religious system or the general concept of piety and devotion.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2356 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 62:1
Codex Sinaiticus
- Colossians — 2:18
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 10:339
- Book 6 — 1:18
- Book 8 — 4:120
- Book 9 — 13:273
- Book 12 — 5:253, 7:320
- Book 16 — 4:115
- Book 17 — 9:214
Josephus' The Jewish War
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
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΙΣ — (to) religion, (to) worship, (to) religious observance, (to) piety
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΝ — religion, a religion, religious worship, piety
- ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑΣ — (of) religion, (of) worship, (of) religious observance, (of) piety, a religion
- 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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