Strong's G2304 θεῖος (theios)

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, Because I have slain a man to my sorrow And a youth to my grief.

And I have filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge, to invent in every work,

And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

Verily, while my breath is yet in me, And the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, And the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.

He shall rain upon sinners snares, Fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

Of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, And forgotten the covenant of God.

For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

for he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless without all hope of life.

For it is not a light thing to do wickedly against the laws of God; but the time following shall declare these things.

Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.

It was thou who didst make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when thou didst consume them with fire and brimstone.

They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.

And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.

Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that King Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;

At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them.

We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;

And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.

and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!

Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.

Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

But thou, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shalt, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruelhearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

But thou art tortured with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

But God shall speedily find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody.

For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.

Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning.

Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all-wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.

For it was a truly divine contest which was carried through by them.

Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?

through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.

For they became the atonement to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and their propitiatory death.

Whence those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.

Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.

Be willing to hear every godly discourse: And let not the parables of understanding escape thee.