Bible word study

Zeus (Strong’s G2203): Meaning in the Bible

Zeus (Ζεύς) is the Greek word numbered G2203 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as in the oblique cases there is used instead of it a (probably cognate) name , which is otherwise obsolete; Zeus or Dis (among the Latins, Jupiter or Jove), the supreme deity of the Greeks. In the King James Bible it is translated Jupiter..

• Original wordΖεύς
• TransliterationZeús
• Pronunciationdzyooce
• Strong’s numberG2203
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of uncertain affinity;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Zeus appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Zeus (G2203) stands behind 2 English renderings in 2 verses across 1 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (2).

Three places to read Zeus

• Acts 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
• Acts 14:13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Zeus in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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