noun · masculine
zevos
Strong’sG2203
Zeus
stem zev-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
Ζεύς
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2203 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddzyooce
in the oblique cases there is used instead of it a (probably cognate) name Δίς , which is otherwise obsolete; Zeus or Dis (among the Latins, Jupiter or Jove), the supreme deity of the Greeks
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King JamesJupiter.
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
nominative Refs 8th c.BC+, once written Ζηύς Refs; Boeotian dialect Δεύς (which see); vocative Ζεῦ Refs 8th c.BC+; late Δεΐ Refs; accusative Δία, rarer than Διός, Διί in Refs 8th c.BC+, frequently later (cf. Sanskrit dyaús, genitive divás, locative diví 'sky', 'heaven', 'day', locative also dyávi,= Latin “Jove”, accusative dyā´m,= Latin diem,= Gr. Ζῆν (see. below)): also nominative Ζήν probably in Refs 4th c.BC+; genitive dative accusative Ζηνός, Ζηνί, Ζῆνα, Refs 8th c.BC+; Coan Ζηνί Refs 4th c.BC+; accusative Ζῆν (Ζῆν᾽ Refs 8th c.BC+; Cretan dialect Ττηνός, Ττηνί, Refs 3rd c.BC+; nominative Δήν Hdn.Gr.2.911:—Doric dialect and Attic dialect-Ionic dialect forms with α (of doubtful origin), nominative Ζάν Refs 5th c.BC+; Ζανός and Ζανί, Refs; accusative Ζᾶνα Refs 3rd c.BC+; nominative Ζάς Refs 6th c.BC+; Δάν (which see); Τάν Head Refs; nominative Δίς Refs 3rd c.BC+; Ζεῦν falsa lectio for Ζῆν᾽ Refs 8th c.BC+; ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ πάντες θεοί, ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοί, Refs 5th c.BC+; in oaths, οὐ μὰ Ζῆνα, twice in Refs 8th c.BC+; νὴ τὸν Δία or νὴ Δία, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ τὸν Δία alone, Refs 5th c.BC+: proverbial of enormous wealth, τῷ Διὶ πλούτου πέρι ἐρίζειν Refs 5th c.BC+
II of other deities, Ζ. καταχθόνιος,= Πλούτων, Refs 8th c.BC+; of non-Greek divinities, Ζ. Ἄμμων Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently of Semitic Baalim, Z. Βεελβώσωρος, etc., Refs 1st c.AD+; Z. Ὠρομάσδης,= Refs 1st c.BC+
III of persons, ὁ σχινοκέφαλος Z., iron. of Pericles, Refs 5th c.BC+; in flattery of kings, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ξέρξης ὁ τῶν Περσῶν Z. Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Roman emperors, Refs 3rd c.AD+; Νέρων Z. Ἐλευθέριος Refs; Ζῆνα τὸν Αἰνεάδην Refs 1st c.AD+
IV Διὸς ἀστήρ the planet Jupiter, Refs 5th c.BC+; Διὸς ἡμέρα a day of the week, Refs 2nd c.AD+
V Refs 4th c.BC+ name for the monad, Refs
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 | zevos | zevois |
| object accusative | zevon1×Δία | zevoin |
| direct address vocative | zevor | zevoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | zevou1×Διὸς | zevoiu |
| to, for dative | zevo | zevoi |
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
zevo 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
zevon“Zeus”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 14:12kalale tē ton Barnabon Zevon, ton de Paulon Hermon, epeidē autos …Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because …
zevou“Zeus”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 14:13tos tē hierevos tou Zevou tou arōntou pro tau polau tauroin …The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the …