QEOTHS-Col 2:9

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Mon Sep 13 13:54:40 EDT 1999


At 10:18 AM 9/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>  In Col 2:9 the word QEOTHS is used, and is usually translated "Deity" or 
>"Godhead". Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon defines it as "Godhead, the state 
>of being God". I believe this word only appears in this text in all the GNT. 
>Thayer comments that this word is different than QEIOTHS (Acts 17:29; Rom 
>1:20) which is usually translated as "Divinity". Does anyone know where in 
>other Greek literature contemporaneous or prior to the writing of Colossians 
>this word is used outside the GNT? Many thanks.

See Plutarch- De Def. Orac. 10
Lucian- Icarom 9
Hermes- 10, 1, 4;  11,5, 11:10, 14

best,

Jim


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