King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G735
Transliteration: Artemis
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-tem-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Meaning: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Ἄρτεμις, Ἀρτέμιδος and Ἀρτεμιος, ἡ, Artemis, that is to say, the so-called Tauric or Persian or Ephesian Artemis, the goddess of many Asiatic peoples, to be distinguished from the Artemis of the Greeks, the sister of Apollo; cf. Grimm on 2 Macc., p. 39; (B. D. under the word). A very splendid temple was built to her at Ephesus, which was set on fire by Herostratus and reduced to ashes; but afterward, in the time of Alexander the Great, it was rebuilt in a style of still greater magnificence: Acts 19:24, 27f, 34f. Gr. Stark in Schenkel i., p. 604f, under the word Diana; (Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, Lond. 1877).
Word Summary
Artemis: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Original Word: ἌρτεμιςTransliteration: Artemis
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-tem-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Meaning: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Strong's Concordance
Diana. Probably from the same as artemon; prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities -- Diana.
see GREEK artemon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 735: ἌρτεμιςἌρτεμις, Ἀρτέμιδος and Ἀρτεμιος, ἡ, Artemis, that is to say, the so-called Tauric or Persian or Ephesian Artemis, the goddess of many Asiatic peoples, to be distinguished from the Artemis of the Greeks, the sister of Apollo; cf. Grimm on 2 Macc., p. 39; (B. D. under the word