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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Ζεύς
Ζεύς
G2203
Transliteration: Zeús
Pronunciation: dzyooce
Definition: Jupiter
- Original: Ζεύς - Transliteration: Zeus - Phonetic: dzyooce Δίς Dis deece which is otherwise obsolete; Zeus or Dis (among the Latins Jupiter or Jove) the supreme deity of the Greeks: - Jupiter.
- Definition: Jupiter or Zeus = "a father of helps"
1. the national god of the Greeks and corresponds to the Roman Jupiter
- Origin: of uncertain affinity - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: Of uncertain affinity; in the oblique cases there is used instead of it a (probably cognate) name