fearing God, religious
fearing God, religious, Hdt. 1.86, 2.37, S. OC 260 (Sup.), Pl. Cra. 394d, al.; θ. μέλος Ar. Av. 897 (lyr.); τὸ θεοσεβές Pl. Epin. 977e. Adv. -βῶς X. Cyr. 3.3.58.
The corpus record
θεοσεβ-ής
theosebes
fearing God, religious
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Where it lives
- Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
- Job 3 · 2.25/10k
- Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
- Meditations 4 · 1.38/10k
- Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
- On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- John 1 · 0.65/10k
- Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
- Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θεοσεβεῖς · theosebeis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6266)
- θεοσεβὴς · theosebēs Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris *bouko/los (DIORISIS sentence 111)
- θεοσεβέα · theosebea Herodotus, Histories 1.86.2 (DIORISIS sentence 602)
- θεοσεβέες · theosebees Herodotus, Histories 2.37.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1797)
- θεοσεβὲς · theosebes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3)
- θεοσεβῆ · theosebē Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.30.1 (DIORISIS sentence 825)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.