Strong's Greek · G127

αἰδώς

aidṓs

reverence, shamefacedness

Definition

bashfulness, i.e. (towards men), modesty or (towards God) awe

Derivation

perhaps from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G1492 (εἴδω) (through the idea of downcast eyes);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

1 Timothy 2:9

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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