δειλοί (deiloi)

δειλοί is an Ancient Greek form of δειλός, meaning “cowardly, wretched”. It is the vocative plural masculine adjective.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.31: … ἣν καὶ αὐτὴν οὕτω ποιῆσαι· Ἀρχεάνασσαν ἔχω τὴν ἐκ Κολοφῶνος ἑταίραν, ἧς καὶ ἐπὶ ῥυτίδων ἕζετο δριμὺς ἔρως. ἆ δειλοὶ νεότητος ἀπαντήσαντες ἐκείνης πρωτοπλόου, διʼ ὅσης ἤλθετε πυρκαϊῆς.

New Testament, Matthew 8.26: καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί δειλοί ἐστε, ὀλιγόπιστοι; τότε ἐγερθεὶς ἐπετίμησεν τοῖς ἀνέμοις καὶ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ ἐγένετο γαλήνη μεγάλη.

All forms of δειλός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.