STRONGS G1356:
διοπετής,
-ές, (from
Διός of Zeus, and
πέτω for
πίπτω; in secular writings also
διϊπετής),
fallen from Zeus, i. e. from heaven:
τὸ διοπετές, namely,
ἄγαλμα (which is expressed in Euripides, Iph. T. 977; Herodian, 1, 11, 2 [1, Bekker edition; cf. Winer's Grammar, 234 (219); 592 (551)]), an image of the Ephesian Artemis which was supposed to have fallen from heaven,
Acts 19:35; [cf. Meyer at the passage;
Farrar, St. Paul, 2:13f].
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