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θεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖος θεῖα θεῖον

Structure: θει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. and Sup. qeio/teros, -o/tatos, qew/teros being comp. of qeo/s

Sense

  1. of or from the gods or God, divine
  2. belonging or sacred to a god, holy
  3. super-human (used of heroic figures)
  4. Imperial

Declension

First/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

  • τούτοισ ὑπαχθεὶσ τοῖσ λόγοισ Ὀνίασ ὁ ἀρχιερεύσ, καίπερ ἄλλωσ εὐλαβηθείσ, μήποτε νομίσειεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σέλευκοσ ἐξ ἀνθρωπίνησ ἐπιβουλῆσ καὶ μὴ θείασ δίκησ ἀνῃρῆσθαι τὸν Ἀπολλώνιον, ηὔξατο περὶ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 4:13)
  • σὺ πάτερ, τὴν εὐνομίαν ἡμῶν διὰ τῶν ὑπομονῶν εἰσ δόξαν ἐκύρωσασ καὶ τὴν ἁγιστείαν σεμνολογήσασ οὐ κατέλυσασ καὶ διὰ τῶν ἔργων ἐπιστοποίησασ τοὺσ τῆσ θείασ φιλοσοφίασ λόγουσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:9)
  • σὺ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἡμῶν μιαιφονίαν αὐτάρκη καρτερήσεισ ὑπὸ τῆσ θείασ δίκησ αἰώνιον βάσανον διὰ πυρόσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:9)
  • σὺ δὲ ἐν ταῖσ τῆσ ἀσεβείασ ἀπειλαῖσ βασανίζῃ. οὐκ ἐκφεύξῃ δέ, μιαρώτατε τύραννε, τὰσ τῆσ θείασ ὀργῆσ δίκασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:32)
  • Τίνεσ οὐκ ἐθαύμασαν τοὺσ τῆσ θείασ νομοθεσίασ ἀθλητάσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 17:16)

Synonyms

  1. of or from the gods or God

  2. belonging or sacred to a god

  3. super-human

  4. Imperial

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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