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 Romans — 135 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.
Romans
- Romans 1:1 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,
- Romans 1:4 θεοῦ n gen sg masc who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
- Romans 1:7 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 1:8 θεῶ n dat sg masc First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Romans 1:9 θεός n nom sg masc For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
- Romans 1:10 θεοῦ n gen sg masc requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
- Romans 1:16 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
- Romans 1:17 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
- Romans 1:18 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
- Romans 1:19 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
- Romans 1:21 θεὸν θεὸν n acc sg masc n acc sg masc Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Romans 1:23 θεοῦ n gen sg masc and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
- Romans 1:24 θεὸς n nom sg masc Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
- Romans 1:25 θεοῦ n gen sg masc who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
- Romans 1:26 θεὸς n nom sg masc For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
- Romans 1:28 θεὸν θεὸς n acc sg masc n nom sg masc Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- Romans 1:32 θεοῦ n gen sg masc who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 2:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
- Romans 2:3 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
- Romans 2:4 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Romans 2:5 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Romans 2:11 θεῷ n dat sg masc For there is no partiality with God.
- Romans 2:13 θεῷ n dat sg masc For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- Romans 2:16 θεὸς n nom sg masc in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, by Jesus Christ.
- Romans 2:17 θεῷ n dat sg masc Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- Romans 2:23 θεὸν n acc sg masc You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
- Romans 2:24 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
- Romans 2:29 θεοῦ n gen sg masc but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
- Romans 3:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
- Romans 3:3 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
- Romans 3:4 θεὸς n nom sg masc May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."
- Romans 3:5 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Romans 3:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
- Romans 3:7 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
- Romans 3:11 θεόν n acc sg masc There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
- Romans 3:18 θεοῦ n gen sg masc "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
- Romans 3:19 θεῷ n dat sg masc Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Romans 3:21 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
- Romans 3:22 θεοῦ n gen sg masc even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
- Romans 3:23 θεοῦ n gen sg masc for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
- Romans 3:25 θεὸς n nom sg masc whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
- Romans 3:26 θεοῦ n gen sg masc to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
- Romans 3:29 θεὸς n nom sg masc Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- Romans 3:30 θεός n nom sg masc since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- Romans 4:2 θεόν n acc sg masc For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
- Romans 4:3 θεῷ n dat sg masc For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
- Romans 4:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
- Romans 4:17 θεοῦ n gen sg masc As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:20 θεοῦ θεῷ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
- Romans 5:1 θεὸν n acc sg masc Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Romans 5:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Romans 5:5 θεοῦ n gen sg masc and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Romans 5:8 θεὸς n nom sg masc But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:10 θεῷ n dat sg masc For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Romans 5:11 θεῷ n dat sg masc Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
- Romans 5:15 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
- Romans 6:10 θεῷ n dat sg masc For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
- Romans 6:11 θεῷ n dat sg masc Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:13 θεῷ θεῷ n dat sg masc n dat sg masc Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- Romans 6:17 θεῷ n dat sg masc But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
- Romans 6:22 θεῷ n dat sg masc But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
- Romans 6:23 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 7:4 θεῷ n dat sg masc Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
- Romans 7:22 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
- Romans 7:25 θεῷ θεοῦ n dat sg masc n gen sg masc I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
- Romans 8:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- Romans 8:7 θεόν θεοῦ n acc sg masc n gen sg masc because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
- Romans 8:8 θεῷ n dat sg masc Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
- Romans 8:9 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- Romans 8:14 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
- Romans 8:16 θεοῦ n gen sg masc The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
- Romans 8:17 θεοῦ n gen sg masc and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Romans 8:19 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Romans 8:21 θεοῦ n gen sg masc that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
- Romans 8:27 θεὸν n acc sg masc He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
- Romans 8:28 θεὸν n acc sg masc We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:31 θεὸς n nom sg masc What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Romans 8:33 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
- Romans 8:34 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
- Romans 8:39 θεοῦ n gen sg masc nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 9:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
- Romans 9:6 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
- Romans 9:8 θεοῦ n gen sg masc That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
- Romans 9:11 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
- Romans 9:14 θεῷ n dat sg masc What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
- Romans 9:16 θεοῦ n gen sg masc So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
- Romans 9:20 θεῷ n dat sg masc But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
- Romans 9:22 θεὸς n nom sg masc What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
- Romans 9:26 θεοῦ n gen sg masc "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
- Romans 10:1 θεὸν n acc sg masc Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
- Romans 10:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
- Romans 10:3 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
- Romans 10:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Romans 11:1 θεὸς n nom sg masc I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Romans 11:2 θεὸς θεῷ n nom sg masc n dat sg masc God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
- Romans 11:8 θεὸς n nom sg masc According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
- Romans 11:21 θεὸς n nom sg masc for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- Romans 11:22 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
- Romans 11:23 θεὸς n nom sg masc They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Romans 11:29 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
- Romans 11:30 θεῷ n dat sg masc For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
- Romans 11:32 θεὸς n nom sg masc For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
- Romans 11:33 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Romans 12:1 θεοῦ θεῷ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
- Romans 12:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Romans 12:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 13:1 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- Romans 13:2 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
- Romans 13:4 θεοῦ θεοῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
- Romans 13:6 θεοῦ n gen sg masc For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
- Romans 14:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.
- Romans 14:6 θεῷ θεῷ n dat sg masc n dat sg masc He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
- Romans 14:10 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
- Romans 14:11 θεῷ n dat sg masc For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
- Romans 14:12 θεῷ n dat sg masc So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
- Romans 14:17 θεοῦ n gen sg masc for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:18 θεῷ n dat sg masc For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
- Romans 14:20 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
- Romans 14:22 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
- Romans 15:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
- Romans 15:6 θεὸν n acc sg masc that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 15:7 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Therefore receive one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.
- Romans 15:8 θεοῦ n gen sg masc Now I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
- Romans 15:9 θεόν n acc sg masc and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, And sing to your name."
- Romans 15:13 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:15 θεοῦ n gen sg masc But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
- Romans 15:16 θεοῦ n gen sg masc that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:17 θεόν n acc sg masc I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
- Romans 15:19 θεοῦ n gen sg masc in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ;
- Romans 15:30 θεόν n acc sg masc Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
- Romans 15:32 θεοῦ n gen sg masc that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
- Romans 15:33 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
- Romans 16:20 θεὸς n nom sg masc And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Romans 16:26 θεοῦ n gen sg masc
- Romans 16:27 θεῷ n dat sg masc
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
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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.
