Strong's Concordance
theios: divine
Original Word: θεῖος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: theios
Phonetic Spelling: (thi'-os)
Short Definition: divine
Definition: divine; subst: the Deity.
HELPS Word-studies
2304 theíos (an adjective, derived from 2316 /theós, "God") – divine, manifesting the characteristics of God's nature.
2304 /theíos ("divine nature") ties God's essence to His self-manifestation, permitting all people to know Him by observing His attributes.
[See also the discussion of: general revelation (cf. 2304 /theíos) and special revelation (cf. 2320 /theótēs) at 601 /apokalýptō ("reveal") and 602 /apokálypsis ("revelation").]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2304: θεῖοςθεῖος,
θεία,
θεῖον (
Θεός) (from
Homer down),
divine:
ἡ θεία δύναμις,
2 Peter 1:3;
φύσις (
Diodorus 5, 31),
2 Peter 1:4; neuter
τό θεῖον,
divinity, deity (Latin
numendivinum), not only used by the Greeks to denote the divine nature, power, providence, in the general, without reference to any individual deity (as
Herodotus 3, 108;
Thucydides 5, 70;
Xenophon, Cyril 4, 2, 15; Hell. 7, 5, 13; mem. 1,4, 18;
Plato, Phaedr., p. 242c.;
Polybius 32, 25, 7;
Diodorus 1, 6; 13, 3; 12; 16, 60;
Lucian, de sacrif. 1; pro imagg. 13, 17. 28), but also by
Philo (as in mundi opff. § 61; de agric. 17; leg. ad
Galatians 1), and by
Josephus (Antiquities, 1, 3, 4; 11, 1; 2, 12, 4; 5, 2, 7; 11, 5, 1; 12, 6, 3; 7, 3; 13, 8, 2; 10, 7; 14, 9, 5; 17, 2, 4; 20, 11, 2;
b. j. 3, 8, 3; 4, 3, 10), of the one, true God; hence, most appositely employed by Paul, out of regard for Gentile usage, in
Acts 17:29.
