θεῖον
Ancient GreekEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.on/
Etymology 1Edit
Substantivized neuter form of θεῖος (theîos, “divine”).
NounEdit
θεῖον • (theîon) n (genitive θείου); second declension
- divinity
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17:29:
- γένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ ἢ λίθῳ, χαράγματι τέχνης καὶ ἐνθυμήσεως ἀνθρώπου, τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον.
- génos oûn hupárkhontes toû theoû ouk opheílomen nomízein khrusôi ḕ argúrōi ḕ líthōi, kharágmati tékhnēs kaì 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.
- γένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ ἢ λίθῳ, χαράγματι τέχνης καὶ ἐνθυμήσεως ἀνθρώπου, τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον.
- (in the plural) the acts of the gods
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 |
θείοιν theíoin |
τοῖς θείοις toîs theíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θεῖον tò theîon |
θείω theíō |
τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | θεῖον theîon |
θείω theíō |
θεῖᾰ theîa | ||||||||||
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ReferencesEdit
- θεῖος (A) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2Edit
From earlier θέειον (théeion), *θέϝειον (*théweion). 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
NounEdit
θεῖον • (theîon) n (genitive θείου); second declension
- Sulfur.
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 17:29:
- ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθεν Λὼτ 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.
- ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθεν Λὼτ ἀπὸ Σοδόμων, ἔβρεξεν πῦρ καὶ θεῖον ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πάντας.
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 |
θείοιν theíoin |
τοῖς θείοις toîs theíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θεῖον tò theîon |
θείω theíō |
τᾰ̀ θεῖᾰ tà theîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | θεῖον theîon |
θείω theíō |
θεῖᾰ theîa | ||||||||||
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Derived termsEdit
- θέεινος (théeinos)
ReferencesEdit
- θεῖον (A) 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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
ParticipleEdit
θεῖον • (theîon)
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of θείων (theíōn)