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θεός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεός θεοῦ

Structure: θε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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

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

  • νῦν οὖν πεπόρευσαι. ἐπιθυμίᾳ γὰρ ἐπεθύμησασ ἀπελθεῖν εἰσ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρόσ σου. ἱνατί ἔκλεψασ τοὺσ θεούσ μου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:30)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακώβ. παῤ ᾧ ἂν εὕρῃσ τοὺσ θεούσ σου, οὐ ζήσεται ἐναντίον τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἡμῶν. ἐπίγνωθι τί ἐστι παῤ ἐμοὶ τῶν σῶν καὶ λαβέ. καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνω παῤ αὐτῷ οὐδέν. οὐκ ᾔδει δὲ Ἰακώβ, ὅτι Ραχὴλ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἔκλεψεν αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:32)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἰακὼβ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ. ἄρατε τοὺσ θεοὺσ τοὺσ ἀλλοτρίουσ τοὺσ μεθ̓ ὑμῶν ἐκ μέσου ὑμῶν καὶ καθαρίσθητε καὶ ἀλλάξατε τὰσ στολὰσ ὑμῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:2)
  • καὶ ἔδωκαν τῷ Ἰακὼβ τοὺσ θεοὺσ τοὺσ ἀλλοτρίουσ, οἳ ἦσαν ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ἐνώτια τὰ ἐν τοῖσ ὠσὶν αὐτῶν, καὶ κατέκρυψεν αὐτὰ Ἰακὼβ ὑπὸ τὴν τερέβινθον τὴν ἐν Σικίμοισ καὶ ἀπώλεσαν αὐτὰ ἕωσ τῆσ σήμερον ἡμέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:4)
  • νῦν ἔγνων ὅτι μέγασ Κύριοσ παρὰ πάντασ τοὺσ θεούσ, ἕνεκεν τούτου ὅτι ἐπέθεντο αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 18:11)

Synonyms

  1. title of a ruler

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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