Religious

RELIGIOUS

In a general sense, something that relates to religion. It is also used for a person engaged by solemn vows to the monastic life; or a person shut up in a monastery, to lead a life of devotion and austerity under some rule or institution. The male religious are called monks and friars; the females, nuns and canonesses.

Fuente: Theological Dictionary

Religious

in a general sense, is something that relates to religion; and, in reference to persons, thatwhich indicates that they give their attention to religion, and are so influenced by it as to differ from the world. It was also applied to members of monastic orders. SEE RELIGIOSI.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Religious

“religious, careful of the externals of divine service,” akin to threskeia (see above), is used in Jam 1:26.

Notes: (1) For deisidaimon, Act 17:22, RV, marg., “religious,” see SUPERSTITIOUS. (2) For “religious (proselytes),” AV in Act 13:43, see DEVOUT, No. 3.

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words