θεός
God
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2316 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 86 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 1:1 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
- 1 Corinthians 1:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
- 1 Corinthians 1:3 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 1:4 θεῷ θεοῦ n dat sg masc n gen sg masc I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
- 1 Corinthians 1:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:20 θεὸς n nom sg masc Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- 1 Corinthians 1:21 θεοῦ θεόν θεὸς n gen sg masc n acc sg masc n nom sg masc For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
- 1 Corinthians 1:24 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:25 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
- 1 Corinthians 1:27 θεὸς θεὸς n nom sg masc n nom sg masc but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
- 1 Corinthians 1:28 θεός n nom sg masc and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
- 1 Corinthians 1:29 θεοῦ n gen sg masc that no flesh should boast before God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:30 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
- 1 Corinthians 2:1 θεοῦ n gen sg masc When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:5 θεοῦ n gen sg masc that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:7 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
- 1 Corinthians 2:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, Which didn't enter into the heart of man, These God has prepared for those who love him."
- 1 Corinthians 2:10 θεὸς θεοῦ n nom sg masc n gen sg masc But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 2:12 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7 θεός n nom sg masc So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9 θεοῦ θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
- 1 Corinthians 3:10 θεοῦ n gen sg masc According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 θεοῦ θεός θεοῦ n gen sg masc n nom sg masc n gen sg masc If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19 θεῷ n dat sg masc For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
- 1 Corinthians 3:23 θεοῦ n gen sg masc and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
- 1 Corinthians 4:1 θεοῦ n gen sg masc So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- 1 Corinthians 4:20 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
- 1 Corinthians 5:13 θεὸς n nom sg masc But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 θεοῦ n gen sg masc nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 θεὸς n nom sg masc "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:14 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
- 1 Corinthians 6:20 θεὸν n acc sg masc for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
- 1 Corinthians 7:15 θεός n nom sg masc Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
- 1 Corinthians 7:17 θεός n nom sg masc Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 7:19 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
- 1 Corinthians 7:24 θεῷ n dat sg masc Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
- 1 Corinthians 7:40 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 8:3 θεόν n acc sg masc But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 θεὸς n nom sg masc Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:5 θεοὶ θεοὶ n nom pl masc n nom pl masc For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
- 1 Corinthians 8:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 θεῷ n dat sg masc But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 θεῷ n dat sg masc For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- 1 Corinthians 9:21 θεοῦ n gen sg masc to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 θεός n nom sg masc However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13 θεός n nom sg masc No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 θεῷ n dat sg masc But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have communion with demons.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:32 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
- 1 Corinthians 11:3 θεός n nom sg masc But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:7 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
- 1 Corinthians 11:12 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:13 θεῷ n dat sg masc Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
- 1 Corinthians 11:16 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 θεοῦ n gen sg masc What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:6 θεός n nom sg masc There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
- 1 Corinthians 12:18 θεὸς n nom sg masc But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
- 1 Corinthians 12:24 θεὸς n nom sg masc whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 θεὸς n nom sg masc God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
- 1 Corinthians 14:2 θεῷ n dat sg masc For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
- 1 Corinthians 14:18 θεῷ n dat sg masc I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
- 1 Corinthians 14:25 θεῷ θεὸς n dat sg masc n nom sg masc And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
- 1 Corinthians 14:28 θεῷ n dat sg masc But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- 1 Corinthians 14:33 θεὸς n nom sg masc for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
- 1 Corinthians 14:36 θεοῦ n gen sg masc What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
- 1 Corinthians 15:9 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 1 Corinthians 15:15 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
- 1 Corinthians 15:24 θεῷ n dat sg masc Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
- 1 Corinthians 15:28 θεὸς n nom sg masc When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
- 1 Corinthians 15:34 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- 1 Corinthians 15:38 θεὸς n nom sg masc But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
- 1 Corinthians 15:50 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
- 1 Corinthians 15:57 θεῷ n dat sg masc But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek name θεος centers on the idea of “God.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:23. It appears 1,152 verses across 27 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. For the data behind this summary, explore 1,152-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2316 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,152
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,152 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #14
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 14 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1,152 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,152 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 479 verses · 42%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 269 verses · 23%
- Gospels 266 verses · 23%
- Johannine 199 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 102 verses · 9%
- Revelation 87 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 63 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: God 1,272×, God's 13×, Is god 10×
- American Standard Version: God 1,211×, Is god 9×, Gods 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: God 1,175×, God’s 87×, Gods 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: God 1,285×, The 20×, Of 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2316 across 1,342 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2316 across 1,315 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2316 across 1,292 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 26 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2316 across 1,361 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities
- God the Father, the first person in the trinity
- Christ, the second person of the trinity
- Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity
- spoken of the only and true God
- whatever can in any respect be likened unto God, or resemble him in any way
Word origin
Derived from ο (ho) (G3588).
Of uncertain affinity; a deity especially (with G3588 ) the supreme Divinity ; figuratively a magistrate ; by hebraism very : - X exceeding God god [-ly -ward].
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G2316 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θεοῦ theoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 3:16 | 688 |
| θεὸς theòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 3:9 | 241 |
| θεῷ theō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:24 | 158 |
| θεόν theón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:7 | 75 |
| θεὸν theòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 5:8 | 74 |
| θεός theós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 1:23 | 65 |
| θεοὶ theoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 14:11 | 4 |
| θεέ theé | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 27:46 | 2 |
| θεοί theoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | John 10:34 | 1 |
| θεούς theoús | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | John 10:35 | 1 |
| θεοὺς theoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 7:40 | 1 |
| θεοῖς theoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Galatians 4:8 | 1 |
| θεῶ theō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 1:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2316, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- τανυν tanŷn G3569 present
- οδε hóde G3592 this
- οιος hoîos G3634 what sort of
- ος hós G3739 who
- ουτος hoûtos G3778 this
- σημερον sḗmeron G4594 this day
- ταυτα tautá G5024 thus
- τηλικουτος tēlikoûtos G5082 of such size
- τοι toí G5104 truly
- τοσουτος tosoûtos G5118 so great
- τοτε tóte G5119 then
- του toû G5120 his
- τουναντιον tounantíon G5121 on the contrary
- τουνομα toúnoma G5122 by name
Derived from this word
- θεα theá G2299 goddess
- θεοδιδακτος theodídaktos G2312 taught of God
- θεομαχος theomáchos G2314 resisting God
- θεοπνευστος theópneustos G2315 inspired by God
- θεοσεβης theosebḗs G2318 pious
- θεοστυγης theostygḗs G2319 hateful to God
- θεοτης theótēs G2320 deity
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ο ων και ο ην και ο ερχομενος ho ṑn kaí ho ēn kaí ho erchómenos G3801 He who is
- θειος theîos G2304 God
- Θεοφιλος Theóphilos G2321 Theophilus
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 26 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (God). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew 'El, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of 'Eloah_, plural _'Elohim. The singular form, Eloah, is used only in poetry. The plural form is more commonly used in all parts of the Bible, The Hebrew word Jehovah (q.v.), the only other word generally employed to denote the Supreme Being, is uniformly rendered in the Authorized Version by "LORD," printed in small capitals. The existence of God is taken for granted in the Bible. There is nowhere any argument to prove it. He who disbelieves this truth is spoken of as one devoid of understanding (Ps. 14:1).
The arguments generally adduced by theologians in proof of the being of God are:
(1.) The a priori argument, which is the testimony afforded by reason.
(2.) The a posteriori argument, by which we proceed logically from the facts of experience to causes. These arguments are,
(a) The cosmological, by which it is proved that there must be a First Cause of all things, for every effect must have a cause.
(b) The teleological, or the argument from design. We see everywhere the operations of an intelligent Cause in nature.
(c) The moral argument, called also the anthropological argument, based on the moral consciousness and the history of mankind, which exhibits a moral order and purpose which can only be explained on the supposition of the existence of God. Conscience and human history testify that "verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth."
The attributes of God are set forth in order by Moses in Ex. 34:6, 7. (see also Deut. 6:4; 10:17; Num. 16:22; Ex. 15:11; 33:19; Isa. 44:6; Hab. 3:6; Ps. 102:26; Job 34:12.) They are also systematically classified in Rev. 5:12 and 7:12.
God's attributes are spoken of by some as absolute, i.e., such as belong to his essence as Jehovah, Jah, etc.; and relative, i.e., such as are ascribed to him with relation to his creatures. Others distinguish them into communicable, i.e., those which can be imparted in degree to his creatures: goodness, holiness, wisdom, etc.; and incommunicable, which cannot be so imparted: independence, immutability, immensity, and eternity. They are by some also divided into natural attributes, eternity, immensity, etc.; and moral, holiness, goodness, etc.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(good). Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures two chief names are used for the one true divine Being--ELOHIM, commonly translated God in our version, and Jehovah, translated Lord . Elohim is the plural of Eloah (in Arabic Allah); it is often used in the short form EL (a word signifying strength, as in EL-SHADDAI, God Almighty, the name by which God was specially known to the patriarchs. (Genesis 17:1; 28:3; Exodus 6:3) The etymology is uncertain, but it is generally agreed that the primary idea is that of strength, power of effect, and that it properly describes God in that character in which he is exhibited to all men in his works, as the creator, sustainer and supreme governor of the world. The plural form of Elohim has given rise to much discussion. The fanciful idea that it referred to the trinity of persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is either what grammarians call the plural of majesty, or it denotes the fullness of divine strength, the sum of the powers displayed by God. Jehovah denotes specifically the one true God, whose people the Jews were, and who made them the guardians of his truth. The name is never applied to a false god, nor to any other being except one, the ANGEL-JEHOVAH who is thereby marked as one with God, and who appears again in the New Covenant as "God manifested in the flesh." Thus much is clear; but all else is beset with difficulties. At a time too early to be traced, the Jews abstained from pronouncing the name, for fear of its irreverent use. The custom is said to have been founded on a strained interpretation of (Leviticus 24:16) and the phrase there used, "THE NAME" (Shema), is substituted by the rabbis for the unutterable word. In reading the Scriptures they substituted for it the word ADONAI (Lord), from the translation of which by Kurios in the LXX., followed by the Vulgate, which uses Dominus, we have the Lord of our version. The substitution of the word Lord is most unhappy, for it in no way represents the meaning of the sacred name. The key to the meaning of the name is unquestionably given in God's revelation of himself to Moses by the phrase "I AM THAT I AM," (Exodus 3:14; 6:3) We must connect the name Jehovah with the Hebrew substantive verb to be, with the inference that it expresses the essential, eternal, unchangeable being of Jehovah. But more, it is not the expression only, or chiefly, of an absolute truth: it is a practical revelation of God, in his essential, unchangeable relation to this chosen people, the basis of his covenant.
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θεος appears 3,139 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2,639 verses in 36 books.
- 3,139
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2,639
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 36 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:1 θεός
- Exodus 1:17 θεός
- Leviticus 2:13 θεός
- Numbers 6:7 θεός
- Deuteronomy 1:6 θεός
- Joshua 1:9 θεός
- Judges 1:7 θεός
- Ruth 1:15 θεός
- 1 Samuel 1:3 θεός
- 2 Samuel 3:9 θεός
- 1 Kings 1:17 θεός
- 2 Kings 1:2 θεός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2316) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 2,639. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:1 θεός In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:2 θεός Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:3 θεός God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- Genesis 1:4 θεός God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5 θεός God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:6 θεός God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:7 θεός God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:8 θεός God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 θεός God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:10 θεός God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:11 θεός God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 θεός The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:14 θεός God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:16 θεός God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:17 θεός God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:18 θεός and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:20 θεός God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:21 θεός God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22 θεός God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:24 θεός God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25 θεός God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 θεός God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27 θεός God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:28 θεός God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 θεός God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:31 θεός God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:2 θεός On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 θεός God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:4 θεός This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:5 θεός No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:7 θεός Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:8 θεός Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:9 θεός Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:15 θεός Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:16 θεός Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:18 θεός Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:19 θεός Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 2:21 θεός Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 2:22 θεός He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.
- Genesis 3:1 θεός Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:3 θεός but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:5 θεός for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:8 θεός They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:9 θεός Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
- Genesis 3:13 θεός Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:14 θεός Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:21 θεός Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
- Genesis 3:22 θεός Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 3:23 θεός Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 4:1 θεός The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2316) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.