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Strong's #4586: semnos (pronounced sem-nos')

from 4576; venerable, i.e. honorable:--grave, honest.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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semnos

1) august, venerable, reverend

2) to be venerated for character, honourable

2a) of persons

2b) of deeds

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from G4576

Citing in TDNT: 7:191, 1010




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Philippians 4:8: "are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,"
1 Timothy 3:8: "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much"
1 Timothy 3:11: "Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in"
Titus 2:2: "That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity,"









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