UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: διοπετής; -ές

Constructions: διοπετής; Διός [Ζεύς]; πίπτω

Sense 1: stone from heaven, stone fallen from the sky

Semantic entry: 2.48

Semantic domains: Natural Substances

Subdomains: Precious and Semiprecious Stones and Substances

Definition: a stone which has fallen from heaven or the sky (originally employed in referring to images of the gods)

Notes: The object referred to by τοῦ διοπετοῦς in RV ACT 19:35 · LV ACT 19:35 · Read together ACT 19:35 was probably a stone meteorite regarded as a sacred supernatural object.

ACT 19:35: RV ACT 19:35 · LV ACT 19:35 · Read together ACT 19:35

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OET-RV ACT 19:35

35 Eventually the city administrator was able to calm the crowd and tell them, “Men, fellow people from Efesos, what person from around here doesn’t know that it’s Efesos that’s the temple keeper of the great Artemis and of this image that fell down from Zeus?

OET-LV ACT 19:35

35 And the clerk having _calmed the crowd is _saying:
Men, ones_from _Efesos, because/for who is of_the_people, who is_ not _knowing the city of_the_ones_from _Efesos being temple _keeper of _the great Artemis and of _the fallen _from _Zeus image?

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

διοπετής

Form 1

Sense 1: stone from heaven, stone fallen from the sky