Thrēskeía — G2356

Definition

feminine noun

ceremonial observance

1. religious worship, especially external, that which consists in ceremonies
2. universally, religious worship
3. religious discipline, religion

Usually translated as

religion, worshipping

Origin

from a derivative of G2357

• thrēskós (G2357)

Occurrences

Thrēskeía occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (1), James (2)

• Acts 26:5 — Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion (θρησκείας) I lived a Pharisee.
• James 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion (θρησκεία) is vain.
• James 1:27 — Pure religion (θρησκεία) and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.