θεομάχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θεός (theós, “god”) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, “I fight”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.o.má.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe.oˈma.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈma.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θe.oˈma.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θe.oˈma.xos/
Adjective
θεομᾰ́χος • (theomắkhos) m or f (neuter θεομᾰ́χον); second declension
- fighting against God
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Juppiter Trageodeus §45:
- οὐδὲ βροντῶντος ἄρα τοῦ Διὸς ἀκούεις, ὦ θεομάχε Δᾶμι;
- oudè brontôntos ára toû Diòs akoúeis, ô theomákhe Dâmi?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- οὐδὲ βροντῶντος ἄρα τοῦ Διὸς ἀκούεις, ὦ θεομάχε Δᾶμι;
- Acts of the Apostles 5:39 «Εἰ δὲ ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐστιν, οὐ δύνασθε καταλῦσαι αὐτό, μήποτε καὶ θεομάχοι εὑρεθῆτε».
- «Ei dè ek Theoû estin, ou dúnasthe katalûsai autó, mḗpote kaì theomákhoi heurethête».
- “But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | θεομᾰ́χος theomắkhos |
θεομᾰ́χον theomắkhon |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χοι theomắkhoi |
θεομᾰ́χᾰ theomắkhă | ||||||||
| Genitive | θεομᾰ́χου theomắkhou |
θεομᾰ́χου theomắkhou |
θεομᾰ́χοιν theomắkhoin |
θεομᾰ́χοιν theomắkhoin |
θεομᾰ́χων theomắkhōn |
θεομᾰ́χων theomắkhōn | ||||||||
| Dative | θεομᾰ́χῳ theomắkhōi |
θεομᾰ́χῳ theomắkhōi |
θεομᾰ́χοιν theomắkhoin |
θεομᾰ́χοιν theomắkhoin |
θεομᾰ́χοις theomắkhois |
θεομᾰ́χοις theomắkhois | ||||||||
| Accusative | θεομᾰ́χον theomắkhon |
θεομᾰ́χον theomắkhon |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χους theomắkhous |
θεομᾰ́χᾰ theomắkhă | ||||||||
| Vocative | θεομᾰ́χε theomắkhe |
θεομᾰ́χον theomắkhon |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χω theomắkhō |
θεομᾰ́χοι theomắkhoi |
θεομᾰ́χᾰ theomắkhă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| θεομᾰ́χως theomắkhōs |
θεομᾰχώτερος theomăkhṓteros |
θεομᾰχώτᾰτος theomăkhṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Related terms
- θεομᾰχέω (theomăkhéō)
Further reading
- “θεομάχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θεομάχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2314 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible