θεός

Qeov" Qeov",
Qeou',
oJ and
hJ, vocative
qh'/, once in the N. T., ; besides in ; ; ; (; ); ; Sap. ; ; ; Act. Thom. 44f, 57; Eus. h. e. 2, 23, 16; (5, 20, 7; vit. Const. 2, 55, 1. 59); cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 8, 2 c.; (Buttmann, 12 (11)); ((on the eight or more proposed derivations see Vanicek, p. 386, who follows Curtius, (after D?derlein), p. 513ff in connecting it with a root meaning to supplicate, implore; hence, the implored; per contra cf. Max M?ller, Chips etc. f; Liddell and Scott, under the word, at the end)); (from Homer down); the Septuagint for lae, !yhil?a, and hw:hy?; a god, a goddess;1. a general appellation of deities or divinities: ; ; ; once
hJ
Qeov", G L T Tr WH;
Qeou'
fwnhv
kaiv
oujk
ajnqrwvpou, ;
a[nqrwpo"
w[n
poiei'"
seautovn
Qeovn, ; plural, of the gods of the Gentiles: ; ;
legovmenoi
qeoiv, a;
oiJ
fuvsei
mhv
o[nte"
qeoiv, ;
tou'
Qeou'
!Refan (which see), ; of angels:
eijsiv
qeoiv
polloiv, b (on which cf. Philo de somn. i. sec. 39
oJ
mevn
ajlhvqeia
Qeov"
eij"
ejstin,
oiJ
d!
ejn
katacrhsei
legovmenoi
pleivou"). (On the use of the singular
Qeov" (and Latin deus) as a generic term by (later) heathen writers, see Norton, Genuineness of the Gospels, 2nd edition iii. addit. note D; cf. Dr. Ezra Abbot in Chris. Exam. for Nov. 1848, p. 389ff; Huidekoper, Judaism at Rome, chapter i. sec. ii.; see Bib. Sacr. for July 1856, p. 666f, and for addit. examples Nagelsbach, Homer. Theol., p. 129; also his Nachhomerische Theol., p. 139f; Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word; and references (by Prof. Abbot) in the Journal of the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, i., p. 120 note.)2. Whether Christ is called God must be determined from ; ; ; ; ; f, etc.; the matter is still in dispute among theologians cf. Grimm, Institutio theologiae dogmaticae, edition 2, p. 228ff (and the discussion (on ) by Professors Dwight and Abbot in the Journal of the Society for Biblical Literature, etc. as above, especially, pp. 42ff, 113ff).3. spoken of the only and true God: with the article, ; ; ; , and very often; with prepositions:
ejk
tou'
Qeou', , and often in John's writings;
uJpov
tou'
Qeou' (T Tr WH
ajpov); ;
parav
tou'
Qeou', ; (L T Tr WH here omit the article);
parav
tw'/
Qeou', (Tr text omits, and L WH Tr marginal reading brackets the article); ;
ejn
tw'/
Qeou', ;
ejpiv
tw'/
Qew'/, <<ref:B