θεῖον

Substantivized neuter form of θεῖος (theîos, “divine”).

θεῖον • (theîon) n (genitive θείου); second declension

1. divinity
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17:29:

     γένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες τοῦ θεοῦ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ ἢ λίθῳ, χαράγματι τέχνης καὶ ἐνθυμήσεως ἀνθρώπου, τὸ θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον.

     génos oûn hupárkhontes toû theoû ouk opheílomen nomízein khrusôi ḕ argúrōi ḕ líthōi, kharágmati tékhnēs kaì enthumḗseōs anthrṓpou, tò theîon eînai hómoion.

     Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not consider things of gold or silver or stone, being made by human skill and ingenuity, to be similar to the divine.

2. (in the plural) the acts of the gods

• “θεῖος (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From earlier θέειον (théeion), *θέϝειον (*théweion). Usually connected to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, haze”), implying an original meaning of "fumigant", the same root as θυμιάω (thumiáō, “to burn, smoke”).

• θέειον (théeion), θήϊον (thḗïon) — Epic

θεῖον • (theîon) n (genitive θείου); second declension

1. (chemistry) sulfur
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 17:29:

     ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξῆλθεν Λὼτ ἀπὸ Σοδόμων, ἔβρεξεν πῦρ καὶ θεῖον ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπώλεσεν πάντας.

     hêi dè hēmérāi exêlthen Lṑt apò Sodómōn, ébrexen pûr kaì theîon ap’ ouranoû kaì apṓlesen pántas.

     And on the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from the heavens and destroyed everyone.

• θέεινος (théeinos)

• “θεῖον (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2303 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brimstone idem, page 99.
  • sulphur idem, page 837.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

θεῖον • (theîon)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of θείων (theíōn)