theia
IPA: ðɛʌ
Root Word: Theia
noun
- (Greek mythology) A Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion.
- (Greek mythology) An Oceanid nymph (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys), the mother of the Cercopes by Oceanus.
- (astronomy) A hypothesised Mars-sized planet of the early solar system thought to have collided with the Earth to produce the Moon.
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Examples of "theia" in Sentences
- Hosa he theia graphe legei, tou Pneumatos eisi tou Hagiou phonai.
- * Hosa he theia graphe legei, tou Pneumatos eisi tou Hagiou phonai:
- That is somewhere called kainē ktisis, the “new creature,” [199] but nowhere theia phusis, the “divine nature.”
- That phusis theia should be only a gracious habit, quality, or disposition of soul in us, I cannot easily receive.
- The father's sister is called 'amita,' the mother's 'matertera'; both go in Greek by the name 'theia,' or, with some, 'tithis.'
- S. Jean Chrysostome (Greek and French, Paris, 1907); i He theia leitourgia, periechousa ton esperinon, k.t.l. (Athens, 1894); CHARON,
- -- He theia leitourgia tou hagiou apostolou kai euaggelistou Markou mathetou tou hagiou Petrou (Paris, 1583), edited by JOHN A S. ANDREA (de Saint-Andrée).
- "We have to start training the coloureds in theia oct our people and to ensure we are not going to end up under the oppression of the black-dominated armed force."
- Ioudaia kata panta dikaios kai peplērōmenos theia sophia, philanthrōpōs edidaxen hēmas tis ho tōn holōn theos kai ti telos aretēs epi semnēn politeian harmozon pros tas tōn anthrōpōn psuchas; hos dia tou pathein epausen tas archas tōn hamartiōn: [1331] 1
- This theia phusis, this "divine nature," is not the nature of God, whereof in our own persons we are not subjectively partakers; and yet a nature it is which is a principle of operation, and that divine or spiritual, -- namely, an habitual holy principle, wrought in us by God, and bearing his image.
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