What Does “Devout” Mean in the Bible?
Someone who loves God and prays with devotion. Said of God, it means compassionate.
A detail
- In the Bible: at Pentecost there were devout Jews in Jerusalem from every nation. And Judith and her people said to God: “because you are merciful, have mercy on us.”
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 2:5; Judith 7:20; Acts 10:2
What the Bible says
Acts 2:5
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Judith 7:20
And when they had kept this watch for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the reserve of waters failed among all the inhabitants of Bethulia, so that there was not within the city, enough to satisfy them, no not for one day, for water was daily given out to the people by measure.
Acts 10:2
A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and always praying to God.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “piadoso”