noun · feminine
theas
Strong’sG2299
a goddess
stem the-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* θεά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(fem. of θεός, q.v.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2299 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtheh-ah'
a female deity
Fromfeminine of G2316;
King Jamesgoddess.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
in later Epic dialect θεή Refs 3rd c.BC+, dative θεῇ Refs 8th c.BC+, Laconian dialect σιά Refs 5th c.BC+ in Epic dialect, Trag.(with imitations in Comedy texts, as Refs 4th c.BC+ and later Prose: —goddess, opposed to γυνή, Refs 8th c.BC+: with another substantive, θ. μήτηρ Refs; Παλλὰς θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ θεαί Refs 3rd c.BC+; αἱ σεμναὶ θ. the Erinyes, Refs 5th c.BC+; δειναί, ἀνώνυμοι θ., Refs 5th c.BC+
II name of third τόπος, Vett.Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | theas | theais |
| object accusative | thean | theain |
| direct address vocative | thear | theair |
| of, belonging to genitive | theau1×θεᾶς | theaiu |
| to, for dative | thea | theai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
thea is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
theau“goddess”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 19:27… erchara, alla kai tem tau megau theau Artemiau hierem eis oudenem logizira, mellarō …… that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her …