Sébomai — G4576

Definition

verb

to revere, i.e. adore

1. to revere, to worship
2. Vulg. colentes

Usually translated as

worship, devout, religious

Origin

middle voice of an apparently primary verb

Occurrences

Sébomai occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (1), Acts (8)

• Matthew 15:9 — But in vain they do worship (σέβονταί) me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Mark 7:7 — Howbeit in vain do they worship (σέβονταί) me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
• Acts 13:43 — Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious (σεβομένων) proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
• Acts 13:50 — But the Jews stirred up the devout (σεβομένας) and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
• Acts 16:14 — And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped (σεβομένη) God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
• Acts 17:4 — And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout (σεβομένων) 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 (σεβομένοις), 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 (σεβομένου) God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
• Acts 18:13 — Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship (σέβεσθαι) 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 should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth (σέβεται).