θεῖον

See also: θείο and θείον

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Ancient GreekEdit

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰêː.on/ → /ˈθi.on/ → /ˈθi.on/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰêː.on/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰi.on/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.on/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.on/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.on/

Etymology 1Edit

AdjectiveEdit

θεῖον • (theîon) n

1. Neuter nominative singular form of θεῖος (theîos, “divine”).
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17:29

     γένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ ἢ λιθῳ, χαράγματι τέχνης και ἐνθυμήσεως ἀνθρώπου, τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον.

     génos oûn hupárkhontes toû theoû ouk opheílomen nomízein khrusôi ḕ argúrōi ḕ lithōi, kharágmati tékhnēs kai enthumḗseōs anthrṓpou, tò theîon eînai hómoion.

     Literally: offspring therefore being of the god, we should not think to gold or silver or stone formed things of skill and of idea of man, the divine being similar.
     Idimatically: Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not consider things of gold or silver or stone, being made by human skill and ingenuity, to be similar to the divine.

2. (as substantive)
   1. Divinity
   2. (plural) the acts of the gods

InflectionEdit

Second declension of τὸ θεῖον; τοῦ θείου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θεῖον tò theîon	τὼ θείω tṑ theíō	τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa
Genitive	τοῦ θείου toû theíou	τοῖν θείοιν toîn theíoin	τῶν θείων tôn theíōn
Dative	τῷ θείῳ tôi theíōi	τοῖν θείοιν toîn theíoin	τοῖς θείοις toîs theíois
Accusative	τὸ θεῖον tò theîon	τὼ θείω tṑ theíō	τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa
Vocative	θεῖον theîon	θείω theíō	θεῖᾰ theîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ReferencesEdit

• θεῖος (A) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2Edit

From earlier θέειον (théeion), *θέϝειον. Usually connected to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”), implying an original meaning of "fumigant", the same root as θυμιάω (thumiáō, “to burn, smoke”).

Alternative formsEdit

• θέειον (théeion), θήϊον (thḗïon) – Epic

NounEdit

θεῖον • (theîon) n (genitive θείου); second declension

1. Sulfur.
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 17:29

     ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθεν Λὼτ̓ ἀπὸ Σοδόμων, ἔβρεξεν πῦρ καὶ θεῖον ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πάντας.

     hêi dè hēmérāi exêlthen Lṑt apò Sodómōn, ébrexen pûr kaì theîon ap' ouranoû kaì apṓlesen pántas.

     Literally: and to the day departed Lot from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed all.
     Idiomatic: And on the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from the heavens and destroyed everyone.

InflectionEdit

Second declension of τὸ θεῖον; τοῦ θείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ θεῖον tò theîon	τὼ θείω tṑ theíō	τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa
Genitive	τοῦ θείου toû theíou	τοῖν θείοιν toîn theíoin	τῶν θείων tôn theíōn
Dative	τῷ θείῳ tôi theíōi	τοῖν θείοιν toîn theíoin	τοῖς θείοις toîs theíois
Accusative	τὸ θεῖον tò theîon	τὼ θείω tṑ theíō	τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa
Vocative	θεῖον theîon	θείω theíō	θεῖᾰ theîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ReferencesEdit

• θεῖον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θεῖον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «θεῖον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2303”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brimstone idem, page 99.
  • sulphur idem, page 837.