θεός, -οῦ, ὁ, ἡ (Act.19:37 only; see M, Pr. 60, 244), late voc. θεέ (Mat.27:46; cf. Deu.3:24, al.),

[in LXX chiefly for אֱלֹהִים, also for אֵל and other cognate forms, יהוה, etc. ;]

a god or deity, God.

__1. In polytheistic sense, a god or deity: Act.28:6, 1Co.8:4, 2Th.2:4, al.; pl. Ac. 14:11 19:26, Gal.4:8, al.

__2. Of the one true God;

__(a) anarthrous: Mat.6:24, Luk.20:38, al.; esp. with prep. (Kühner 3, iii, 605), ἀπὸ θ. Jhn.3:2; ἐκ, Act.5:39, 2Co.5:1, Php.3:9; ὑπό, Rom.13:1; παρὰ θεοῦ, Jhn.1:6; παρὰ θεῷ, 2Th.1:6, 1Pe.2:4; κατὰ θεόν, Rom.8:27, 2Co.7:9, 10; also when in genitive dependent on an anarth. noun (Bl. §46, 6), Mat.27:43, Luk.3:2, Rom.1:17, 1Th.2:13; as pred. Lk 20:38, Jhn.1:1, and when the nature and character rather than the person of God is meant, Act.5:29, Gal.2:6, al. (M, Th. 14);

__(b) more freq. with art.: Mat.1:23, Mrk.2:7, al. mult.; with prep. ἀπὸ τ. θ. Luk.1:26; ἐκ, Jhn.8:42, al.; παρὰ τοῦ θ. Jhn.8:40; π. τῷ θ. Rom.9:14; ἐν, Col.3:3; ἐπὶ τῷ θ. Luk.1:47; ἐπὶ τὸν θ. Act.15:19; εἰς τ. θ. Act.24:15; πρὸς τ. θ. Jhn.1:2; with genitive of person(s), Mat.22:32, Mrk.12:26, 27, Luk.20:37, Jhn.20:17, al.; ὁ θ. μου, Rom.1:8, Php 1:3, al.; ὁ θ. καὶ πατήρ κ. τ. λ. Rom.15:6, Eph.1:3, Phi 4:20, al.; with genitive of thing(s), Rom.15:5, 13, 33, 2Co.1:3, 1Th.5:23; τὰ τ. θεοῦ, Mat.16:23, Mrk.12:17, 1Co.2:11; τὰ πρὸς τὸν θ. Rom.15:17, Heb.2:17 5:1; τ. θεῷ, as a superl. (LXX, Jos.3:3), Act.7:20, 2Co.10:4; Hebraistically, of judges (Psa.81(82):6), Jhn.10:34" (LXX), 35.

(AS)

a god or deity; God; a god; deity