Lexicon Zeus: Zeus, the greatest of the pagan Gk. gods Original Word: Ζεύς, Διός, Δία (acc.), ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Zeus Phonetic Spelling: (dzyooce) Short Definition: Zeus Definition: Zeus, the Greek god of the sky in all its manifestations, corresponding to the Roman Jupiter and to the leading god of the native Lycaonians. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin DefinitionZeus, the greatest of the pagan Gk. gods NASB TranslationZeus (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2203: Διά [Διά, see Ζεύς.] STRONGS NT 2203: Διός [Διός, see Δίσ.] STRONGS NT 2203: Δίσ῟Δίσ῟, an unused nominative for Ζεύς, genitive Διός, accusative Διά (Διαν, Acts 14:12 Tdf. edition 7; see in ἄρρην. and Buttmann, 14 (373)), Zeus, Jupiter, the supreme divinity in the belief of Greeks and Romans; the father of gods and men: Acts 14:12f. (2 Macc. 6:2.) (Cf. Ζεύς.) STRONGS NT 2203: ΖεύςΖεύς (but genitive, Διός (dative Διι<), are. Διά (or Διαν) (from old nominative Δίσ῟), Zeus, corresponding to Latin Jupiter (A. V.): Acts 14:12 (see Δίσ῟); ὁ ἱερεύς τοῦ Διός τοῦ ὄντος πρό τῆς πόλεως, the priest of Zeus whose temple was before the city, Acts 14:13 (cf. Meyer at the passage)). See Δίσ῟.
Strong's Jupiter. Of uncertain affinity; in the oblique cases there is used instead of it a (probably cognate) name; Dis (deece), which is otherwise obsolete; Zeus or Dis (among the Latins, Jupiter or Jove), the supreme deity of the Greeks -- Jupiter. |
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