Θεός

θεός (theos, θεός, -οῦ, -ὁ)

Gloss: God

Strong's 2316

GK 2536

Frequency in New Testament 1317


 * Usually means the one true God of the New Testament but also sometimes used to refer to other gods such as gods of pagans and other religions. In English the former would have an upper case G but this is not done in Greek, so have to rely on context.
 * Nor can you rely on the presence of an article "the" - see Colwell's rule. Sometimes the article is omitted.
 * The 14th most common word in the NT. A well-behaved 2nd declension masculine noun, one of the first to learn.

Paradigm
θεέ as vocative form is not common but does occur in Matthew 26:46 θεέ μου θεέ μου, ἱνατί με ἐγκατέλιπες; (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)