STRONGS G1167:
δειλία,
-ας,
ἡ, (
δειλός),
timidity, fearfullness, cowardice:
2 Timothy 1:7. (Sophocles [Herodotus], Euripides, [Aristophanes], Thucydides, and subsequent writings.)
[Synonyms:
δειλία,
φόβος,
εὐάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good interpretation, capable of an evil, and lying pretty evenly between the two; the third is quite predominantly used in a good sense, though it too has not altogether escaped being employed in an evil." Trench § 10 which see; cf.
δέος.]
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