Threskeia means “religion” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2356 — chor (“cave”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2356 θρησκεία (threskeia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. threskeia (thrace-kei'-ah) n. 1. ceremonial observance [from a derivative of G2357] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include religion and worshipping. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
threskeia (thrace-kei'-ah) n. 1. ceremonial observance [from a derivative of G2357] KJV: religion, worshipping Root(s): G2357
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2356. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
religion
Usage: θρησκεία (-κία, T), -ας, ἡ (θρῆσκος), [in LXX: Wis.14:18, 27, Sir.22:5 A, 4Ma.5:6 4Mac 5:13 * ;] religion in its external aspect (MM, Exp., xv), worship: Act.26:5, Jas.1:26-27; θ. τῶν ἀγγέλων, Col.2:18.† SYN.: see: θρῆσκος (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render threskeia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2356 (θρησκεία) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?
For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
Also the singular diligence of the artificer Did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2356.
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Pure religion 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.
For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?
For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
Also the singular diligence of the artificer Did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition.
For the worshiping of idols not to be named Is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2356, grouped by book.
Threskeia (Strong's G2356) is a Greek word most simply glossed "religion". threskeia (thrace-kei'-ah) n. 1. ceremonial observance [from a derivative of G2357]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G2356 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2356 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as religion and worshipping. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2356, with linked reader references where each row is available.