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θεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖον θεῖου

Structure: θει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: v. qei=os II.

Sense

  1. the divinity

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • σοφία δὴ τοίνυν ἐστὶ γνῶσισ θείων καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων καὶ τῶν τούτων αἰτίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:15)
  • σὲ δὲ ταχέωσ μετελεύσεται ὁ Θεόσ, τὴν γὰρ τῶν θείων ὕμνων μελῳδὸν γλῶτταν ἐκτέμνεισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 10:21)
  • ὦ πρέσβυ, Ταφίων ὅσ ποτ’ ἐξεῖλεσ πόλιν στρατηλατήσασ κλεινὰ Καδμείων δορόσ, ὡσ οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποισι τῶν θείων σαφέσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:1)
  • παρέλιπε δὲ τὴν χρῆσιν τῶν λαχάνων καὶ ἰχθύων καὶ τῶν ὀρνίθων διά τε τὴν λιχνείαν καὶ προσέτι τὴν ἐν ταῖσ σκευασίαισ ἀπρέπειαν, ἐλάττω κεκρικὼσ ἡρωικῶν καὶ θείων ἔργων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 46 2:2)
  • ἔπειτα κατὰ τὸ μηδὲν αὐτῇ μυθῶδεσ προσάψαι, μηδ’ εἰσ ἀπάτην καὶ γοητείαν τῶν πολλῶν ἐκτρέψαι τὴν γραφήν, ὡσ οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ πάντεσ ἐποίησαν, Λαμίασ τινὰσ ἱστοροῦντεσ ἐν ὕλαισ καὶ νάπαισ ἐκ γῆσ ἀνἱεμένασ, καὶ Ναΐδασ ἀμφιβίουσ ἐκ Ταρτάρων ἐξιούσασ καὶ διὰ πελάγουσ νηχομένασ καὶ μιξόθηρασ, καὶ ταύτασ εἰσ ὁμιλίαν ἀνθρώποισ συνερχομένασ, καὶ ἐκ θνητῶν καὶ θείων συνουσιῶν γονὰσ ἡμιθέουσ, καὶ ἄλλασ τινὰσ ἀπίστουσ τῷ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ βίῳ καὶ πολὺ τὸ ἀνόητον ἔχειν δοκούσασ ἱστορίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 6 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. the divinity

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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