Greek noun (neuter) · G2303
θεῖον
theionthi'-on
sulfur
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: theîon
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2303is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2303
sulphur
The King James renders it: brimstone.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
theion is rendered "sulfur". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:29θεῖον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seven uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- brimstone5
- of sulfur1
- with brimstone1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- θείῳ3
- θεῖον2
- θείου2
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular3N-DSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular2N-GSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Luke
one use
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- θεῖονtheionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: brimstone
Revelation
six uses
Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur.
- θεῖονtheionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: brimstone
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.
- θείουtheiounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: brimstone
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
- θείῳtheionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: brimstone
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- θείῳtheionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: brimstone
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- θείουtheiounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of sulfur
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- θείῳtheionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with brimstone
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.