θεῖον
theîon · G2303 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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sulfur, brimstone
A chemical found in pale yellow mineral form; burns readily in air and is found in regions of vulcanic activity such as the Dead Sea area; causes land to be infertile; associated with punishment from God
ExamplesLuke 17:29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Revelation 9:17 And this is how I saw in my vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire, of hyacinth, and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκπορεύομαιto go out, to come out 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκπορεύομαιto go out, to come out 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βρέχωrain 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐνin 4
- ἐκfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λίμνηlake, lake of fire 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- גׇּפְרִית gophrîyth · H1614 · sulphur
- Greek θεῖον renders Hebrew גׇּפְרִית in LXX contexts describing divine judgment by fire and brimstone (Genesis 19:24, Deuteronomy 29:23, etc.), establishing a direct translation equivalence for this mineral substance.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sulfur, brimstone2.26
- In Revelation 9:17, of the vision of the horsemen, “out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone,” naming this mineral substance directly.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θείου, τό (apparently the neuter of the adjective θεῖος equivalent to divine incense,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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