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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. 1 Corinthians 10:13Θεός · God
    No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:20Θεῷ · to God
    No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
  3. 1 Corinthians 10:31Θεοῦ · of God
    So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.
  4. 1 Corinthians 10:32Θεοῦ · of God
    Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
  5. 1 Corinthians 11:3Θεός · [is] God
    But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
  6. 1 Corinthians 11:7Θεοῦ · of God
    A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
  7. 1 Corinthians 11:12Θεοῦ · God
    For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
  8. 1 Corinthians 11:13Θεῷ · to God
    Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
  9. 1 Corinthians 11:16Θεοῦ · of God
    If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
  10. 1 Corinthians 11:22Θεοῦ · of God
    Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
  11. 1 Corinthians 12:3Θεοῦ · of God
    Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
  12. 1 Corinthians 12:6Θεός · God
    There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.
  13. 1 Corinthians 12:18Θεὸς · God
    But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.
  14. 1 Corinthians 12:24θεὸς · God
    …whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
  15. 1 Corinthians 12:28Θεὸς · God
    And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.
  16. 1 Corinthians 14:2Θεῷ · to God
    For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
  17. 1 Corinthians 14:18Θεῷ · God
    I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
  18. 1 Corinthians 14:25Θεῷ · God; Θεὸς · God
    …and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”
  19. 1 Corinthians 14:28Θεῷ · God
    But if there is no interpreter, he should remain silent in the church and speak only to himself and God.
  20. 1 Corinthians 14:33Θεὸς · a God
    For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
  21. 1 Corinthians 14:36Θεοῦ · of God
    Did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
  22. 1 Corinthians 15:9Θεοῦ · of God
    For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
  23. 1 Corinthians 15:10Θεοῦ · of God; Θεοῦ · of God
    But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
  24. 1 Corinthians 15:15Θεοῦ · about God; Θεοῦ · God
    In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.
  25. 1 Corinthians 15:24Θεῷ · to God
    Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
  26. 1 Corinthians 15:28Θεὸς · God
    And when all things have been subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be made subject to Him who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all.
  27. 1 Corinthians 15:34Θεοῦ · of God
    Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
  28. 1 Corinthians 15:38Θεὸς · God
    But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
  29. 1 Corinthians 15:50Θεοῦ · of God
    Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
  30. 1 Corinthians 15:57Θεῷ · God
    But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
  31. 2 Corinthians 1:1Θεοῦ · of God; Θεοῦ · of God
    Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
  32. 2 Corinthians 1:2Θεοῦ · God
    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  33. 2 Corinthians 1:3Θεὸς · God; Θεὸς · [the] God
    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
  34. 2 Corinthians 1:4Θεοῦ · God
    …who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
  35. 2 Corinthians 1:9Θεῷ · God
    Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
  36. 2 Corinthians 1:12Θεοῦ · [are from] God; Θεοῦ · of God
    For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
  37. 2 Corinthians 1:18Θεὸς · God [is]
    But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
  38. 2 Corinthians 1:19Θεοῦ · of God
    For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”
  39. 2 Corinthians 1:20Θεοῦ · of God; Θεῷ · of God
    For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
  40. 2 Corinthians 1:21Θεός · [it is] God
    Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
  41. 2 Corinthians 1:23Θεὸν · God
    I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
  42. 2 Corinthians 2:14Θεῷ · God
    But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
  43. 2 Corinthians 2:15Θεῷ · to God
    For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.