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θεός

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greekNew TestamentNoun1,319 occurrences27 books1,155 verses

Definition

θεός, -οῦ, ὁ, ἡ (Acts 19:37 only; see M, Pr., 60, 244), late voc., θεέ (Matthew 27:46; cf. Deuteronomy 3:24, al.),

[in LXX chiefly for אֱלֹהִים, also for אֵל and other cognate forms, יהוה, etc. ;]

a god or deity, God.

1. In polytheistic sense, a god or deity: Acts 28:6, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, al.; pl., Acts 14:11; 19:26, Galatians 4:8, al.

2. Of the one true God;

(a) anarthrous: Matthew 6:24, Luke 20:38, al.; esp. with prep. (Kühner 3, iii, 605), ἀπὸ θ., John 3:2; ἐκ, Acts 5:39, 2 Corinthians 5:1, Philippians 3:9; ὑπό, Romans 13:1; παρὰ θεοῦ, John 1:6; παρὰ θεῷ, 2 Thessalonians 1:6, 1 Peter 2:4; κατὰ θεόν, Romans 8:27, 2 Corinthians 7:9, 10; also when in genitive dependent on an anarth. noun (Bl., §46, 6), Matthew 27:43, Luke 3:2, Romans 1:17, 1 Thessalonians 2:13; as pred., Luke 20:38, John 1:1, and when the nature and character rather than the person of God is meant, Acts 5:29, Galatians 2:6, al. (M, Th., 14);

(b) more freq., with art.: Matthew 1:23, Mark 2:7, al. mult.; with prep., ἀπὸ τ. θ., Luke 1:26; ἐκ, John 8:42, al.; παρὰ τοῦ θ., John 8:40; π. τῷ θ., Romans 9:14; ἐν, Colossians 3:3; ἐπὶ τῷ θ., Luke 1:47; ἐπὶ τὸν θ., Acts 15:19; εἰς τ. θ., Acts 24:15; πρὸς τ. θ., John 1:2; with genitive of person(s), Matthew 22:32, Mark 12:26, 27, Luke 20:37, John 20:17, al.; ὁ θ. μου, Romans 1:8, Philippians 1:3, al.; ὁ θ. καὶ πατήρ κ. τ. λ., Romans 15:6, Ephesians 1:3, Philippians 4:20, al.; with genitive of thing(s), Romans 15:5, 13, 33, 2 Corinthians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:23; τὰ τ. θεοῦ, Matthew 16:23, Mark 12:17, 1 Corinthians 2:11; τὰ πρὸς τὸν θ., Romans 15:17, Hebrews 2:17; 5:1; τ. θεῷ, as a superl. (LXX, Joshua 3:3), Acts 7:20, 2 Corinthians 10:4; Hebraistically, of judges (Psa.81(82):6), John 10:34" (LXX), 35.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as θεός:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,319 total
  1. Romans 2:16Θεὸς · God
    …on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
  2. Romans 2:17Θεῷ · God
    Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
  3. Romans 2:23Θεὸν · God
    You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
  4. Romans 2:24Θεοῦ · God’s
    As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
  5. Romans 2:29Θεοῦ · God
    No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
  6. Romans 3:2Θεοῦ · of God
    Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
  7. Romans 3:3Θεοῦ · God’s
    What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
  8. Romans 3:4Θεὸς · {Let} God
    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
  9. Romans 3:5Θεοῦ · of God; Θεὸς · God
    But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
  10. Romans 3:6Θεὸς · {could} God
    Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
  11. Romans 3:7Θεοῦ · God’s
    However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
  12. Romans 3:11Θεόν · God
    There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
  13. Romans 3:18Θεοῦ · of God
    “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
  14. Romans 3:19Θεῷ · to God
    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  15. Romans 3:21Θεοῦ · of God
    But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
  16. Romans 3:22Θεοῦ · [from] God
    And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
  17. Romans 3:23Θεοῦ · of God
    …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
  18. Romans 3:25Θεὸς · God; Θεοῦ · [His]
    God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
  19. Romans 3:29Θεὸς · God
    Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
  20. Romans 3:30Θεός · God
    …since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
  21. Romans 4:2Θεόν · God
    If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
  22. Romans 4:3Θεῷ · God
    For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
  23. Romans 4:6Θεὸς · God
    And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
  24. Romans 4:17Θεοῦ · God
    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
  25. Romans 4:20Θεοῦ · of God; Θεῷ · to God
    Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
  26. Romans 5:1Θεὸν · God
    Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  27. Romans 5:2Θεοῦ · of God
    …through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
  28. Romans 5:5Θεοῦ · God
    And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
  29. Romans 5:8Θεὸς · God
    But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  30. Romans 5:10Θεῷ · to [Him]
    For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
  31. Romans 5:11Θεῷ · God
    Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
  32. Romans 5:15Θεοῦ · God’s
    But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
  33. Romans 6:10Θεῷ · to God
    The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
  34. Romans 6:11Θεῷ · to God
    So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  35. Romans 6:13Θεῷ · to God; Θεῷ · to [Him]
    Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
  36. Romans 6:17Θεῷ · to God
    But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
  37. Romans 6:22Θεῷ · to God
    But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
  38. Romans 6:23Θεοῦ · of God
    For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  39. Romans 7:4Θεῷ · to God
    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
  40. Romans 7:22Θεοῦ · God’s
    For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  41. Romans 7:25Θεῷ · God; Θεοῦ · of God
    Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
  42. Romans 8:3Θεὸς · God [did]
    For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
  43. Romans 8:7Θεόν · God; Θεοῦ · God’s
    …because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
  44. Romans 8:8Θεῷ · God
    Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.