4576. sebó
Strong's Concordance
sebó: to worship
Original Word: σέβομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: sebó
Phonetic Spelling: (seb'-om-ahee)
Definition: to worship
Usage: I reverence, worship, adore.
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4576 sébomai – properly, personally esteem; to hold something (someone) in high respect; showing the reverence or awe (veneration) of someone who is devout.

[4576 (sébomai) always occurs in the Greek middle voice in the NT, accounting for the deep, personal sense of veneration involved.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. verb
Definition
to worship
NASB Translation
devout (1), God-fearing (3), worship (4), worshiper (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4576: σέβω

σέβω, and (so everywhere in the Scriptures) σέβομαι; from Homer down; to revere, to worship: τινα (a deity), Matthew 15:9; Mark 7:7; Acts 18:13; Acts 19:27 (Wis. 15:18 etc.; for יָרֵא, Joshua 4:24; Joshua 22:25; Jonah 1:9). In the Acts, proselytes of the gate (see προσήλυτος, 2) are called σεβόμενοι τόν Θεόν (`men that worship God'), Acts 16:14; Acts 18:7 (Josephus, Antiquities 14, 7, 2); and simply οἱ σεβόμενοι (A. V. the devout persons), Acts 17:17; σεβόμενοι προσήλυτοι (R. V. devout proselytes), Acts 13:43; σεβομεναι γυναῖκες, Acts 13:50; τῶν ... σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων, (A. V. the devout Greeks), Acts 17:4; in the Latin church,metuentes, verecundi, religiosi, timorati; Vulg. (except Acts 13:50)colentes; cf. Thilo in his Cod. apocr. Nov. Test., p. 521.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
devout, religious

Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to revere, i.e. Adore -- devout, religious, worship.

Forms and Transliterations
σεβεσθαι σέβεσθαι σεβεται σέβεται σέβησθε σέβομαι σεβομενας σεβομένας σεβομενη σεβομένη σεβομενοις σεβομένοις σεβομενου σεβομένου σεβομενων σεβομένων σεβονται σέβονταί σέβωνται sebesthai sébesthai sebetai sébetai sebomenas seboménas sebomene sebomenē seboméne seboménē sebomenois seboménois sebomenon sebomenōn seboménon seboménōn sebomenou seboménou sebontai sébontaí
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Matthew 15:9 V-PIM/P-3P
GRK: μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με διδάσκοντες
NAS: BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING
KJV: in vain they do worship me,
INT: in vain moreover they worship me teaching [as]

Mark 7:7 V-PIM/P-3P
GRK: μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με διδάσκοντες
NAS: BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING
KJV: in vain do they worship me,
INT: in vain moreover they worship me teaching

Acts 13:43 V-PPM/P-GMP
GRK: καὶ τῶν σεβομένων προσηλύτων τῷ
NAS: of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes
KJV: and religious proselytes
INT: and of the worshipping converts

Acts 13:50 V-PPM/P-AFP
GRK: παρώτρυναν τὰς σεβομένας γυναῖκας τὰς
NAS: incited the devout women
KJV: stirred up the devout and
INT: incited the worshipping women

Acts 16:14 V-PPM/P-NFS
GRK: πόλεως Θυατείρων σεβομένη τὸν θεόν
NAS: a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God,
KJV: of Thyatira, which worshipped God,
INT: of [the] city of Thyatira who worshipped God

Acts 17:4 V-PPM/P-GMP
GRK: τῶν τε σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων πλῆθος
NAS: number of the God-fearing Greeks
KJV: and of the devout Greeks
INT: of the moreover worshipping Greeks a multitude

Acts 17:17 V-PPM/P-DMP
GRK: καὶ τοῖς σεβομένοις καὶ ἐν
NAS: with the Jews and the God-fearing [Gentiles], and in the market place
KJV: and with the devout persons, and
INT: and those who worshipped and in

Acts 18:7 V-PPM/P-GMS
GRK: Τιτίου Ἰούστου σεβομένου τὸν θεόν
NAS: Justus, a worshiper of God,
KJV: Justus, [one] that worshipped God,
INT: Titius Justus who worshipped God

Acts 18:13 V-PNM/P
GRK: τοὺς ἀνθρώπους σέβεσθαι τὸν θεόν
NAS: persuades men to worship God contrary
KJV: men to worship God
INT: men to worship God

Acts 19:27 V-PIM/P-3S
GRK: ἡ οἰκουμένη σέβεται
NAS: and the world worship will even
KJV: and the world worshippeth.
INT: the world worship

Strong's Greek 4576
10 Occurrences


σέβεσθαι — 1 Occ.
σέβεται — 1 Occ.
σεβομένας — 1 Occ.
σεβομένη — 1 Occ.
σεβομένων — 2 Occ.
σεβομένοις — 1 Occ.
σεβομένου — 1 Occ.
σέβονταί — 2 Occ.

















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