Lexicon diopetés: fallen from heaven Original Word: διοπετής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: diopetés Phonetic Spelling: (dee-op-et'-ace) Short Definition: fallen from the sky Definition: fallen from the sky. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom Dios (of Zeus) and the same as piptóDefinitionfallen from heaven NASB Translationwhich fell down from heaven (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1356: διοπετήςδιοπετής, διοπετες (from Διός of Zeus, and πέτω for πίπτω; in secular writings also Διιπετής), fallen from Zeus, i. e. from heaven: τό διοπετες, namely, ἄγαλμα (which is expressed in Euripides, Iph. T. 977; Herodian, 1, 11, 2 (1, Bekker edition; cf. Winer's Grammar, 234 (219); 592 (551)), an image of the Ephesian Artemis which was supposed to have fallen from heaven, Acts 19:35; (cf. Meyer at the passage; Farrar, St. Paul, 2:13f).
Strong's which fell down from Jupiter. From the alternate of Zeus and the alternate of pipto; sky-fallen (i.e. An aerolite) -- which fell down from Jupiter. see GREEK Zeus see GREEK pipto |
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