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.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–289 of 289 distinct verses where G2316 appears in the Nominative case, across 23 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Philippians 8 verses
- Philippians 1:8 θεός n nom sg masc For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 2:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- Philippians 2:13 θεὸς n nom sg masc For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Philippians 2:27 θεὸς n nom sg masc For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
- Philippians 3:15 θεὸς n nom sg masc Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Philippians 3:19 θεὸς n nom sg masc whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
- Philippians 4:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Philippians 4:19 θεός n nom sg masc My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:27 θεὸς n nom sg masc to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
- Colossians 4:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
1 Thessalonians 7 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10 θεός n nom sg masc You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:11 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 θεὸς n nom sg masc For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14 θεὸς n nom sg masc For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9 θεὸς n nom sg masc For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 θεὸς n nom sg masc May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 5 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 1:11 θεὸς n nom sg masc To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 θεὸν θεοῦ θεός n acc sg masc n gen sg masc n nom sg masc he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:11 θεὸς n nom sg masc Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 θεῷ θεὸς n dat sg masc n nom sg masc But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
1 Timothy 2 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:5 θεός θεοῦ n nom sg masc n gen sg masc For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- 1 Timothy 4:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
2 Timothy 2 verses
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 22 verses
- Hebrews 1:1 θεὸς n nom sg masc God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- Hebrews 1:8 θεός n nom sg masc but of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
- Hebrews 1:9 θεός θεός n nom sg masc n nom sg masc You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
- Hebrews 2:13 θεός n nom sg masc Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here am I and the children whom God has given me."
- Hebrews 3:4 θεός n nom sg masc For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
- Hebrews 4:4 θεὸς n nom sg masc For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"
- Hebrews 4:10 θεός n nom sg masc For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- Hebrews 6:3 θεός n nom sg masc This will we do, if God permits.
- Hebrews 6:10 θεὸς n nom sg masc For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Hebrews 6:13 θεός n nom sg masc For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,
- Hebrews 6:17 θεὸς n nom sg masc In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Hebrews 9:20 θεός n nom sg masc saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
- Hebrews 10:7 θεός n nom sg masc Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of me) To do your will, God.'"
- Hebrews 11:5 θεός θεῷ n nom sg masc n dat sg masc By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
- Hebrews 11:10 θεός n nom sg masc For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
- Hebrews 11:16 θεὸς θεὸς n nom sg masc n nom sg masc But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Hebrews 11:19 θεός n nom sg masc accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
- Hebrews 12:7 θεός n nom sg masc It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?
- Hebrews 12:29 θεὸς n nom sg masc for our God is a consuming fire.
- Hebrews 13:4 θεός n nom sg masc Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Hebrews 13:16 θεός n nom sg masc But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
- Hebrews 13:20 θεὸς n nom sg masc Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
James 4 verses
- James 1:13 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- James 2:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
- James 2:19 θεός n nom sg masc You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
- James 4:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
1 Peter 4 verses
- 1 Peter 1:3 θεὸς n nom sg masc Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 4:11 θεοῦ θεός θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc n nom sg masc If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Peter 5:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
- 1 Peter 5:10 θεὸς n nom sg masc But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
2 Peter 1 verse
1 John 11 verses
- 1 John 1:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- 1 John 3:20 θεὸς n nom sg masc because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- 1 John 4:8 θεόν θεὸς n acc sg masc n nom sg masc He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
- 1 John 4:9 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:11 θεὸς n nom sg masc Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
- 1 John 4:12 θεὸν θεὸς n acc sg masc n nom sg masc No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:15 θεοῦ θεὸς θεῷ n gen sg masc n nom sg masc n dat sg masc Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
- 1 John 4:16 θεὸς θεὸς θεῷ θεὸς n nom sg masc n nom sg masc n dat sg masc n nom sg masc We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
- 1 John 5:10 θεοῦ θεῷ θεὸς n gen sg masc n dat sg masc n nom sg masc He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
- 1 John 5:11 θεός n nom sg masc The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1 John 5:20 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Revelation 20 verses
- Revelation 1:1 θεός n nom sg masc This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
- Revelation 1:8 θεός n nom sg masc "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
- Revelation 4:8 θεὸς n nom sg masc The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
- Revelation 4:11 θεὸς n nom sg masc "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"
- Revelation 7:17 θεὸς n nom sg masc for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
- Revelation 11:17 θεὸς n nom sg masc saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
- Revelation 15:3 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Revelation 16:7 θεὸς n nom sg masc I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."
- Revelation 17:17 θεὸς θεοῦ n nom sg masc n gen sg masc For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
- Revelation 18:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
- Revelation 18:8 θεὸς n nom sg masc Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
- Revelation 18:20 θεὸς n nom sg masc Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
- Revelation 19:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
- Revelation 21:3 θεοῦ θεὸς n gen sg masc n nom sg masc I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Revelation 21:7 θεὸς n nom sg masc He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
- Revelation 21:22 θεὸς n nom sg masc I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
- Revelation 22:5 θεὸς n nom sg masc There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
- Revelation 22:6 θεὸς n nom sg masc He said to me, "These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon."
- Revelation 22:18 θεὸς n nom sg masc I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
- Revelation 22:19 θεὸς n nom sg masc If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
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.