Original Word: δειλία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: deilia
Phonetic Spelling: (di-lee'-ah)
Short Definition: cowardice
Definition: cowardice, timidity.

Cognate: 1167 deilía – timidity, reticence (used only in 2 Tim 1:7). See 1169 (deilós).

STRONGS NT 1167: δειλία

δειλία, δειλίας, ἡ (δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7. (Sophocles (Herodotus), Euripides, (Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.) [SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good interpretation, capable of an evil, and lying pretty evenly between the two; the third is quite predominantly used in a good sense, though it too has not altogether escaped being employed in an evil." Trench, § x, which see; cf. δέος.]

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

fear.

From deilos; timidity -- fear.

see GREEK deilos

Forms and Transliterations

δειλία δειλίαν δειλιάνη δειλιας δειλίας deilias deilías

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