Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Θεός • ‎(Theós) m ‎(genitive Θεοῦ)

1. God
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 1.1

     Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.

     In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

Declension

Greek

Proper noun

Θεός • ‎(Theós) m

1. God

Declension

Synonyms

• Δημιουργός m ‎(Dimiourgós)

See also

• Κύριος m ‎(Kýrios, “Lord”)
• Παντοδύναμος m ‎(Pantodýnamos, “Almighty”)

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θεύς ‎(theús) (Doric)
• θιός ‎(thiós) (Boeotian, Arcadocypriot)
• σιός ‎(siós) (Laconian)
• 𐀳𐀃 ‎(te-o) (Mycenaean)

Adjective

θεός • ‎(theós)

1. divine (used only in comparative: θεώτερος ‎(theṓteros))

Noun

θεός • ‎(theós) m, f ‎(genitive θεοῦ); second declension

1. a deity, a god, God
2. title of a ruler
3. sometimes feminine (ἡ θεός): a goddess

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• deus

References

• θεός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θεός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «θεός» 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
• «θεός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• θεός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2316”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deity idem, page 206.
  • divinity idem, page 244.
  • god idem, page 365.
  • goddess idem, page 365.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 540f

1. ↑ Fortson, Benjamin W. (2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, Oxford: Blackwell, page 1

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θεός ‎(theós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [θe̞ˈo̞s]
• Hyphenation: θε‧ός

Noun

θεός • ‎(theós) m ‎(plural θεοί, feminine θεά)

1. god

Declension

Related terms

• ημίθεος m ‎(imítheos, “demigod”)
• αθεϊσμός m ‎(atheïsmós, “atheism”)
• θεϊσμός m ‎(theïsmós, “theism”)