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Acts 17:
Divine Being
Θεῖον (Theion)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2304: Divine; subst: the Deity. From theos; godlike: - divine, godhead.
Because Greek adjectives are inflected for case, gender, and number, they are often used to stand in as nouns.
G2304 appears exactly 2 other times.
2 Peter 1:
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The word appeared frequently outside of the Bible. Thayer's Greek Lexicon
29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
Divine Being
Θεῖον (Theion)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2304: Divine; subst: the Deity. From theos; godlike: - divine, godhead.
Because Greek adjectives are inflected for case, gender, and number, they are often used to stand in as nouns.
G2304 appears exactly 2 other times.
2 Peter 1:
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
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2304 theíos (an adjective, derived from 2316 /theós, "God") – divine, manifesting the characteristics of God's nature.
2304 /theíos ("divine nature") ties God's essence to His self-manifestation, permitting all people to know Him by observing His attributes.
The word appeared frequently outside of the Bible. Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θεῖος, θεία, θεῖον (Θεός) (from Homer down), divine: ἡ θεία δύναμις, 2 Peter 1:3; φύσις (Diodorus 5, 31), 2 Peter 1:4; neuter τό θεῖον, divinity, deity (Latinnumendivinum), not only used by the Greeks to denote the divine nature, power, providence, in the general, without reference to any individual deity (as Herodotus 3, 108; Thucydides 5, 70; Xenophon, Cyril 4, 2, 15; Hell. 7, 5, 13; mem. 1,4, 18; Plato, Phaedr., p. 242c.; Polybius 32, 25, 7; Diodorus 1, 6; 13, 3; 12; 16, 60; Lucian, de sacrif. 1; pro imagg. 13, 17. 28), but also by Philo (as in mundi opff. § 61; de agric. 17; leg. ad Galatians 1), and by Josephus (Antiquities, 1, 3, 4; 11, 1; 2, 12, 4; 5, 2, 7; 11, 5, 1; 12, 6, 3; 7, 3; 13, 8, 2; 10, 7; 14, 9, 5; 17, 2, 4; 20, 11, 2; b. j. 3, 8, 3; 4, 3, 10), of the one, true God; hence, most appositely employed by Paul, out of regard for Gentile usage, in Acts 17:29.
