UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: religion, piety

Semantic entry: 53.1

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Religious Practice

Definition: appropriate beliefs and devout practice of obligations relating to supernatural persons and powers

Notes: In a number of languages there is no specific term equivalent to ‘religion,’ but one may always speak of this phase of culture by some phrase such as ‘how to act toward God’ or ‘what one does to placate spirits’ or ‘how one worships.’