θεομαχέω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From θεός (theós, “god”) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, “to fight”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰe.o.ma.kʰé.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tʰe.o.maˈkʰe.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /θe.o.maˈçe.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /θe.o.maˈçe.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /θe.o.maˈçe.o/
Verb
[edit]θεομᾰχέω • (theomakhéō)
- to fight against God, or the gods[1]
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Maccabees 7:19:
- σὺ δὲ μὴ νομίσῃς ἀθῷος ἔσεσθαι θεομαχεῖν ἐπιχειρήσας.
- sù dè mḕ nomísēis athôios ésesthai theomakheîn epikheirḗsas.
- σὺ δὲ μὴ νομίσῃς ἀθῷος ἔσεσθαι θεομαχεῖν ἐπιχειρήσας.
Usage notes
[edit]- (Christianity) In the Patristic era, θεομαχέω—as well as its nom. and adj. forms, θεομαχία and θεομάχος, respectively—was used to describe the promulgation (and promulgators) of dogma deemed to be heretical (e.g., Gnosticism, Arianism, etc.).[2]
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- Καὶ ὅτι θεομαχεῖ ὅ τε Καρποκράτης ὅ τ᾽ Ἐπιφάνης...[3]
- Philostorgius, Church History §2.3
- Ὅτι τὸν Ἄρειον ἐν τῷ θεομαχεῖν κατὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ ὑπερθειάζων...
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Derived terms
[edit]- θεόμαχος (theómakhos)
References
[edit]- ^ Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), p. 790; cf. Johan Lust, Erik Eynikel, and Katrin Hauspie, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, rev. ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2003), s.v. "θεομαχέω".
- ^ See G.W.H. Lampe, ed., A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 628–29.
- ^ J.-P. Migne, ed., Clementis Alexandrini Opera Quae Exstant Omnia, in Patrologia Graeca, vol. 8 (Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1857), p. 1109.