Lexicon Artemis: Artemis, the name of the Gr. goddess of the hunt Original Word: Ἄρτεμις, ιδος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Artemis Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-tem-is) Short Definition: the Persian or Ephesian Artemis Definition: Artemis, a goddess, worshipped principally at Ephesus, typifying fertility (she had no relation with the other Artemis, the maiden huntress, to whom corresponded the Latin Diana). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin DefinitionArtemis, the name of the Gr. goddess of the hunt NASB TranslationArtemis (5).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 735: ἌρτεμιςἌρτεμις, Ἀρτέμιδος and Ἀρτεμιος, ἡ, Artemis, that is to say, the so-called Tauric or Persian or Ephesian Artemis, the goddess of many Asiatic peoples, to be distinguished from the Artemis of the Greeks, the sister of Apollo; cf. Grimm on 2 Macc., p. 39; ( B. D. under the word ). A very splendid temple was built to her at Ephesus, which was set on fire by Herostratus and reduced to ashes; but afterward, in the time of Alexander the Great, it was rebuilt in a style of still greater magnificence: Acts 19:24, 27f, 34f. Gr. Stark in Schenkel i., p. 604f, under the word Diana; (Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, Lond. 1877).
Strong's Diana. Probably from the same as artemon; prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities -- Diana. see GREEK artemon |
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