θεοσεβής, θεοσεβες (Θεός and σέβομαι), worshipping God, pious: Joh_9:31. (the Sept.; Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others; (cf. Trench, § xlviii.).)

θεοσεβής theosebēs 1x reverencing God, pious, godly, devout, a sincere worshipper of God, Joh_9:31

θεοσεβής , -ές ( < θεός , σέβομαι ), [in LXX for H430 H3373 , Exo_18:21 , al. ;] God-fearing, godly: Joh_9:31 .† SYN.: εὐσεβής G2152 ( q.v. ), θρῆσκος G2357 .

θεοσεβής [page 288] Like the preceding subst., the adj. is found in addresses, e.g. the already cited P Giss I. 55 .1 (vi/A.D.) τῷ ἀγ̣[απ ]η̣τῷ καὶ θεοσεβεστάτῳ ἀδελφῷ . . . For its pagan use we may cite P Lond 23 ( a ) .20 (B.C. 158 7) (= I. p. 38) where the assistance of Ptolemy Philometor is appealed to on behalf of a certain Apollonius ἧς ἔχετε πρὸς πάντας τοὺς τοιούτους θεοσεβουάς . A remarkable form of the word appears in the interesting inscr., cited by Deissmann LAE , p. 446 f., which marked the place of the seats of the Jews in the theatre at Miletus : Τόπος Εἰουδέων τῶν καὶ Θεοσεβίο (= ω )ν , Place of the Jews, who are also called God-fearing. Deissmann assigns the inscr. to the Imperial age, and remarks that Θεοσέβιοι must already have been felt to be a proper name, comparing the use of Θεοσεβεῖς for the Hypsistarians (Schόrer .3 , iii. p. 124). See also Vett. Val. pp. 17 .1, .19 , 18 .16 , and the sepulchral inscr., Kaibel 729 .2 Ἐνθάδε ἐν εἰρήνῃ κεῖτε Ῥουφεῖνος ἀμύμων , θεοσεβής . For the verb see the citation from Syll 325 s.v . ἡλικία . sub fin .

θεοσεβής θεο-σεβής, ές [Etym: σέβω] "fearing God, religious", Hdt. , Soph. , etc. adv. -βῶς, Xen.

θεοσεβής, -ές (θεός, σέβομαι), [in LXX for אֱלֹהִים יָרֵא, Exo.18:21, al. ;] God-fearing, godly: Jhn.9:31.† SYN.: εὐσεβής (which see), θρῆσκος (AS)