Strong G2338θῆλυς
female
- Transliteration
- thēlus
- Pronunciation
- thay'-loos
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From the same as G2337; female: - female woman.
Detailed definition
θῆλυς, -εια, -υ
[in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה;]
female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה;]
female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Rom.1:26-27; τὸ θ.., Mat.19:4, Mrk.10:6, Gal.3:28.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2338 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- female3
- woman2
First verses
- Matthew 19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
- Mark 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- Romans 1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
- Romans 1:27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
θῆλυς, θήλεια, θῆλυ:
Epic dialect feminine θήλεα, accusative plural -εας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.269 (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has regular _feminine_ θήλεια 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7, +others, but also θῆλυς as _feminine_, 10.216, +others, as in other poets, see below): _Ionic dialect_ _feminine_ θήλεα, θήλεαν, θηλέης, θηλέῃ, _plural_ θήλεαι, θηλέας, θηλέων, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus: _genitive_ θήλυδος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1054)]; accusative feminine θηλείην uncertain reading in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 42, _neuter_ _plural_ θήλεια 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068: _Epic dialect_ also θηλύτερος indicating opposition rather than comparison (compare ἀρρέντερος); θηλύτεραι δὲ γυναῖκες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.520; θηλύτεραι δὲ θεαί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.324; μάτε ἐρσεναιτέραν μάτε θηλυτέραν “Schwyzer” 424 (Elis, 4th c.BC))]; in late Prose θηλύτερος, -ύτατος occur as comparative and superlative (see. below 11): (θη- 'suckle', compare θῆσαι):—female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7)]; Ἥρη θῆλυς ἐοῦσα being female,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.97, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1231, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1062, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 621)]; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.636, etc.; σύες θήλειαι sows, 14.16)]; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.216; θήλεια μῆλα 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068)]; θήλεια ἔλαφος a hind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.29; θήλεα κάμηλος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102)]; ἡ θ. ἵππος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 86; θ. ὄρνις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 477)]; ζῷα θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110c)]; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without female issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66; θῆλυς σπορά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 659; θήλειαι γυναῖκες [prev. author] “Or.” 1205; θ. κόραι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 764d: with _masculine_ nouns, ὁ θῆλυς ὀρεύς)] the she-mule, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 577b22; ἄνθρωπος θῆλυς [prev. author] “PA” 688b31: _masculine_ _plural_, θήλεις χοροί 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 1.8D.; but μὴ εἶναι θεοὺς ἄρρενας μηδὲ θηλείας 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 12.)]
b ἡ θήλεα, Attic dialect -εια, the female, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.4; ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1671 (troch.).)]
c τὸ θ. γένος the female sex, woman-kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 885)]; τὸ θ. alone, [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 536, etc.)]; opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 454d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 988a5; [ἡ δεῖνα] τέτοκεν θῆλυ “PTeb.” 422.18 (3rd c.AD), +others)]
d of plants and trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.1; θ. κάλαμος 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.85; θῆλυς φοῖνιξ 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 1.17; θῆλυ βούτομον 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.10.4.)]
2 of or belonging to women, κουράων θῆλυς ἀϋτή [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.122)]; θήλεα νοῦσος among the Scythians (compare Ἐνάρεες), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.105; νόμος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 821 (Lyric poetry); φύσις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 453a; χάρις “APl.” 4.87 (6th c.AD: Leontius Epigrammaticus))]; θ. φόνος murder by women, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 796.)]
II metaphorically, of persons and things,
II.1 soft, gentle, θῆλυς ἐέρση [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.467, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 395)]; θ. νύξ (={ὕπομβρος}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1053.)]
II.1.b ὕδωρ θ. καὶ μαλακόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.6.3; θηλυτέρα ὀσμή [prev. work] 6.15.4)]; θηλύτατον πεδίον most fruitful, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 296)]; θηλύτατον ὕδωρ of the Nile, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sos.” vii 5.)]
II.2 tender, delicate, Φοίβου θήλειαι.. παρειαί [Refs ([prev. author] “Ap.” 37)]; θῆλυς ἀπὸ χροιῆς delicate of skin, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.49)]; of temper or character, soft, yielding, weak, θῆλυς ηὕρημαι τάλας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1075; γυνὴ δὲ θῆλυ κἀπὶ δακρύοις ἔφυ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 928; θήλεια φρήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 708, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 181; δίαιτα θηλυτέρα ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34; θηλύτατος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 13; παλλακὴ -υτάτη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.21.2)]; τὸ θῆλυ τῆς ψυχῆς effeminacy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 599.)]
II.3 in mechanics, those parts were called female into which others fitted, as the female vertebra, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.180; γίγγλυμος 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 3.6.3.)]
II.4 Grammars, feminine, θήλεα [ὀνόματα] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 682; θήλεα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1458a10.)]
II.5 [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)], of even numbers, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.264a, 288d.)]
II.6 Astrology texts, of planets, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 19; compare θηλυκός 3c.)]
III θήλειαι, αἱ, kind of cheese made in Crete, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Seleucus Grammaticus et Historicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.650d.)]
Epic dialect feminine θήλεα, accusative plural -εας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.269 (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has regular _feminine_ θήλεια 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7, +others, but also θῆλυς as _feminine_, 10.216, +others, as in other poets, see below): _Ionic dialect_ _feminine_ θήλεα, θήλεαν, θηλέης, θηλέῃ, _plural_ θήλεαι, θηλέας, θηλέων, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus: _genitive_ θήλυδος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1054)]; accusative feminine θηλείην uncertain reading in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 42, _neuter_ _plural_ θήλεια 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068: _Epic dialect_ also θηλύτερος indicating opposition rather than comparison (compare ἀρρέντερος); θηλύτεραι δὲ γυναῖκες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.520; θηλύτεραι δὲ θεαί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.324; μάτε ἐρσεναιτέραν μάτε θηλυτέραν “Schwyzer” 424 (Elis, 4th c.BC))]; in late Prose θηλύτερος, -ύτατος occur as comparative and superlative (see. below 11): (θη- 'suckle', compare θῆσαι):—female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.7)]; Ἥρη θῆλυς ἐοῦσα being female,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (19.97, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1231, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1062, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 621)]; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.636, etc.; σύες θήλειαι sows, 14.16)]; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.216; θήλεια μῆλα 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1068)]; θήλεια ἔλαφος a hind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.29; θήλεα κάμηλος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102)]; ἡ θ. ἵππος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 86; θ. ὄρνις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 477)]; ζῷα θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 110c)]; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without female issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66; θῆλυς σπορά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 659; θήλειαι γυναῖκες [prev. author] “Or.” 1205; θ. κόραι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 764d: with _masculine_ nouns, ὁ θῆλυς ὀρεύς)] the she-mule, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 577b22; ἄνθρωπος θῆλυς [prev. author] “PA” 688b31: _masculine_ _plural_, θήλεις χοροί 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 1.8D.; but μὴ εἶναι θεοὺς ἄρρενας μηδὲ θηλείας 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 12.)]
b ἡ θήλεα, Attic dialect -εια, the female, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.4; ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1671 (troch.).)]
c τὸ θ. γένος the female sex, woman-kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 885)]; τὸ θ. alone, [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 536, etc.)]; opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 454d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 988a5; [ἡ δεῖνα] τέτοκεν θῆλυ “PTeb.” 422.18 (3rd c.AD), +others)]
d of plants and trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.1; θ. κάλαμος 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.85; θῆλυς φοῖνιξ 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 1.17; θῆλυ βούτομον 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.10.4.)]
2 of or belonging to women, κουράων θῆλυς ἀϋτή [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.122)]; θήλεα νοῦσος among the Scythians (compare Ἐνάρεες), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.105; νόμος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 821 (Lyric poetry); φύσις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 453a; χάρις “APl.” 4.87 (6th c.AD: Leontius Epigrammaticus))]; θ. φόνος murder by women, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 796.)]
II metaphorically, of persons and things,
II.1 soft, gentle, θῆλυς ἐέρση [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.467, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 395)]; θ. νύξ (={ὕπομβρος}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1053.)]
II.1.b ὕδωρ θ. καὶ μαλακόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.6.3; θηλυτέρα ὀσμή [prev. work] 6.15.4)]; θηλύτατον πεδίον most fruitful, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 296)]; θηλύτατον ὕδωρ of the Nile, [Refs ([prev. author] “Sos.” vii 5.)]
II.2 tender, delicate, Φοίβου θήλειαι.. παρειαί [Refs ([prev. author] “Ap.” 37)]; θῆλυς ἀπὸ χροιῆς delicate of skin, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.49)]; of temper or character, soft, yielding, weak, θῆλυς ηὕρημαι τάλας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1075; γυνὴ δὲ θῆλυ κἀπὶ δακρύοις ἔφυ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 928; θήλεια φρήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 708, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 181; δίαιτα θηλυτέρα ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34; θηλύτατος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 13; παλλακὴ -υτάτη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.21.2)]; τὸ θῆλυ τῆς ψυχῆς effeminacy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 599.)]
II.3 in mechanics, those parts were called female into which others fitted, as the female vertebra, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.180; γίγγλυμος 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 3.6.3.)]
II.4 Grammars, feminine, θήλεα [ὀνόματα] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 682; θήλεα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1458a10.)]
II.5 [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus)], of even numbers, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.264a, 288d.)]
II.6 Astrology texts, of planets, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 19; compare θηλυκός 3c.)]
III θήλειαι, αἱ, kind of cheese made in Crete, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Seleucus Grammaticus et Historicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.650d.)]