[B-Greek] [Fwd: Re: THEION/THEIOO]

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Thu Sep 21 19:57:30 EDT 2006


My post in ξενος XENOS for those running obsolete software.

3514 θεῖον QEION
• θεῖον QEION, ου OU, τό TO (since Homer [θέειον QEEION and θήιον 
QHION]; pap, LXX; Jos., Bell.
7, 189; SibOr 3, 691; Just., A I, 53, 8) sulphur Lk 17:29 (Gen 19:24);
Rv 9:17f (w. καπνός KAPNOS and πῦρ PUR as Philo, Mos. 2, 56); 14:10; 
19:20; 20:10;
21:8; 1 Cl 11:1.—DELG s.v. θεός QEOS.

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Subject: 	Re: [B-Greek] THEION/THEIOO
Date: 	Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:44:38 -0500
From: 	Curtis Hinson <curtis at curtishinson.com>
To: 	gabe coia <pinelandspaddler at yahoo.com>, B Greek 
<b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
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Alright, I got BW7 playing with proper unicode so here we go again.

3514  θεῖον
• θεῖον, ου, τό (since Homer [θέειον and θήιον]; pap, LXX; Jos., Bell. 
7, 189; SibOr 3, 691; Just., A I, 53, 8) sulphur Lk 17:29 (Gen 19:24); 
Rv 9:17f (w. καπνός and πῦρ as Philo, Mos. 2, 56); 14:10; 19:20;  20:10; 
21:8; 1 Cl 11:1.—DELG s.v. θεός.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson

gabe coia wrote the following on 9/21/2006 3:52 PM:
> Thayer's offers this definition for THEION: "divine incense, because burning brimstone was regarded as having power to purify, and to ward off disease"
>    
>   This definition seems to have support in the 1897 edition of the Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon which defines the verb THEIOO thus: "to hallow, to make divine, or to dedicate to a god"
>    
>   Strong's doesn't offer the gloss that Thayer's does, and so I am wondering if these definitions are viable.
>    
>   Thanks in advance.
>    
>   Gabe Coia
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