σέβομαι sebomai

Greek word for “be devout” · Strong’s G4576 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

σέβω; to worship: with accusative of person(s), 19:27;

How it is translated

Glosses given for sebomai in context, with how often each is used:

• worship 4
• worshipping 3
• worshiping 3

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 13 (2), Acts 17 (2), Acts 18 (2), Matthew 15 (1), Mark 7 (1), Acts 16 (1), Acts 19 (1)

Forms

• σέβονταί 2
• σεβομένων 2
• σεβομένας 1
• σεβομένη 1
• σεβομένοις 1
• σεβομένου 1
• σέβεσθαι 1
• σέβεται 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sebomai more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μάτην matēn “in vain” 2
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 4
• ἔνταλμα entalma “precept” 2
• συναγωγή sunagōgē “synagogue” 3
• διδασκαλία didaskalia “teaching” 2
• Βαρνάβας Barnabas “Barnabas” 2
• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 3
• γυνή gunē “woman” 3
• πείθω peithō “to persuade” 2
• διδάσκω didaskō “to teach” 2
• πρῶτος prōtos “first” 2
• πόλις polis “city” 2

Key verses

The verses using sebomai that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 15:9 — But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Mark 7:7 — Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Acts 13:43 — Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to…
• Acts 13:50 — But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out…
• Acts 16:14 — And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended…
• Acts 17:4 — And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
• Acts 17:17 — Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
• Acts 18:7 — And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
• Acts 18:13 — Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
• Acts 19:27 — So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.