Word Summary
theios: divine
Original Word: θεῖοςTransliteration: theios
Phonetic Spelling: (thi'-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: divine
Meaning: divine
Strong's Concordance
godlike, divine, godhead.
From theos; godlike (neuter as noun, divinity): - divine, godhead.
see GREEK theos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2304: θεῖοςθεῖος,
θεία,
θεῖον (
Θεός) (from
Homer down),
divine:
ἡ θεία δύναμις,
2 Peter 1:3;
φύσις (
Diodorus 5, 31),
2 Peter 1:4; neuter
τό θεῖον,
divinity, deity (Latin
numendivinum), not only used by the Greeks to denote the divine nature, power, providence, in the general, without reference to any individual deity (as
Herodotus 3, 108;
Thucydides 5, 70;
Xenophon, Cyril 4, 2, 15; Hell. 7, 5, 13; mem. 1,4, 18;
Plato, Phaedr., p. 242c.;
Polybius 32, 25, 7;
Diodorus 1, 6; 13, 3; 12; 16, 60;
Lucian, de sacrif. 1; pro imagg. 13, 17. 28), but also by
Philo (as in mundi opff. § 61; de agric. 17; leg. ad
Galatians 1), and by
Josephus (Antiquities, 1, 3, 4; 11, 1; 2, 12, 4; 5, 2, 7; 11, 5, 1; 12, 6, 3; 7, 3; 13, 8, 2; 10, 7; 14, 9, 5; 17, 2, 4; 20, 11, 2;
b. j. 3, 8, 3; 4, 3, 10), of the one, true God; hence, most appositely employed by Paul, out of regard for Gentile usage, in
Acts 17:29.