θεός

1307 θεός , -οῦ, ὁ, ἡ ( Ac 19:37 only; v. M, Pr. , 60, 244), late voc., θεέ ( Mt 27:46 ; cf. De 3:24 , al.), [in LXX chiefly for אֱלֹהִים , also for אֵל and other cognate forms, יהוה , etc.;] a god or deity , God . In polytheistic sense, a god or deity : Ac 28:6 , I Co 8:4 , II Th 2:4 , al.; pl., Ac. 14:11 19:26 , Ga 4:8 , al. Of the one true God ; anarthrous: Mt 6:24, Lk 20:38, al.; esp. c. prep. (Kühner 3 , iii, 605), ἀπὸ θ. , Jo 3:2 ; ἐκ , Ac 5:39 , II Co 5:1 , Phl 3:9 ; ὑπό , Ro 13:1 ; παρὰ θεοῦ , Jo 1:6 ; παρὰ θεῷ , II Th 1:6 , I Pe 2:4 ; κατὰ θεόν , Ro 8:27 , II Co 7:9 , 10 ; also when in gen. dependent on an anarth. noun (Bl., §46, 6), Mt 27:43 , Lk 3:2 , Ro 1:17 , I Th 2:13 ; as pred., Lk 20:38 , Jo 1:1 , and when the nature and character rather than the person of God is meant, Ac 5:29 , Ga 2:6 , al. (M, Th. , 14); more freq., c. art.: Mt 1:23 , Mk 2:7 , al. mult.; c. prep., ἀπὸ τ. θ. , Lk 1:26 ; ἐκ , Jo 8:42 , al.; παρὰ τοῦ θ. , Jo 8:40 ; π. τῷ θ. , Ro 9:14 ; ἐν , Col 3:3 ; ἐπὶ τῷ θ. , Lk 1:47 ; ἐπὶ τὸν θ. , Ac 15:19 ; εἰς τ. θ. , Ac 24:15 ; πρὸς τ. θ. , Jo 1:2 ; c. gen. pers., Mt 22:32 , Mk 12:26 , 27 , Lk 20:37 , Jo 20:17 , al.; ὁ θ. μου , Ro 1:8 , Phl 1:3 , al.; ὁ θ. καὶ πατήρ κ. τ. λ. , Ro 15:6 , Eph 1:3 , Phl 4:20 , al.; c. gen. rei, Ro 15:5 , 13 , 33 , II Co 1:3 , I Th 5:23 ; τὰ τ. θεοῦ , Mt 16:23 , Mk 12:17 , I Co 2:11 ; τὰ πρὸς τὸν θ. , Ro 15:17 , He 2:17 5:1 ; τ. θεῷ , as a superl. (LXX, Jos 3:3 ), Ac 7:20 , II Co 10:4 ; Hebraistically, of judges ( Ps 81(82):6 ), Jo 10:34 (LXX) , 35 .