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Koine Greek wordlink #55092

SR GNT Luke 17:29 θεῖον (theion) ‘rained fire and brimstone from the sky and’ Strongs=23030 Lemma=theion
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Only use of identical word form θεῖον (N-ANS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘θεῖον’ (N-ANS) is always and only glossed as ‘brimstone’.

Luke 17:29 ‘rained fire and brimstone from the sky and’ SR GNT Luke 17:29 word 12

OET-LV: 29 but in _that day Lōt/(Lōţ) came _out from Sodoma/(Şədom), fire and brimstone rained from the_sky and destroyed all. (LUK_17:29)

OET-RV: 29 but on the day that Lot walked out of Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from the sky and destroyed everything. (LUK 17:29)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘theion’ have 3 different glosses: ‘of sulfur’, ‘brimstone’, ‘sulfur’.

Key: N=noun ANS=accusative,neuter,singular