Greek words starting with delta
755 words in the Bible begin with delta (δ), listed most frequent first. This is page 1 of 4. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- deδέa small connecting word that signals what comes next is a new step, development, or shift in what the writer is saying
- didōmiδίδωμιto give: to transfer something from one person to another, whether an object, a gift, a right, or a charge.
- diaδιάthrough/because ofnot studied yet
- Daueid, Dauid, DabidΔαυείδ, Δαυίδ, ΔαβίδDavidnot studied yet
- duoδύοtwo: the cardinal number two, the count of a pair.
- dunamisδύναμιςpower: the strength or ability to do something, especially God's effective power at work
+3 more meanings
- a mighty work: a deed that openly displays power, a miracle
- a power: a being or cosmic force that possesses power, including the heavenly bodies and spiritual powers
- meaning: the force a sound or word carries, what it signifies
- doxaδόξαglory: the weighty splendor of God made visible, the honor that splendor commands, and the radiance God shares with his people
+1 more meaning
- glorious ones: exalted heavenly beings named with the reverence due to their dignity
- dunamaiδύναμαιto be able: to have the power, capacity, or freedom to do something
- dikaiosδίκαιοςrighteous, just: being or doing what is right, in line with God's standard of what people, acts, and God himself ought to be
- doulosδοῦλοςa slave: a person legally owned by another and wholly at that owner's disposal
- dikaiosunēδικαιοσύνηrightness: being and doing what is right, and being set right by the God who is himself right
- diathēkēδιαθήκηcovenant: a solemn, God-initiated bond that ties God and his people to one another with sworn promises and commitments
+1 more meaning
- will: the legal arrangement a person makes for their estate, which takes effect only when they die
- diotiδιότιbecausenot studied yet
- dekaδέκαtennot studied yet
- dēδήsonot studied yet
- dexiosδεξιόςright: belonging to the right-hand side, and so the side of honor and power
- deuterosδεύτεροςsecond: next after the first in order, rank, or time
- DaniēlΔανιήλDanielnot studied yet
- dēmosδῆμοςpeoplenot studied yet
- dunatosδυνατόςable, powerful: having what it takes to bring something about
+1 more meaning
- possible: able to be done or to happen
- doxazōδοξάζωto praise or honor someone, above all to give glory to God for what he has done
+2 more meanings
- to clothe with splendor: to lift someone into a state of radiant honor and glory
- in John's Gospel, to reveal someone's true glory, the way the Father and Son honor each other and the cross becomes the moment of glory
- didaskōδιδάσκωto teach or instruct: to hand on understanding so that the hearer grasps it and lives by it, and at times simply to tell someone what they are to do
- dierchomaiδιέρχομαιto go through: to move all the way through or across something, from passing through a place to traveling about and, by extension, to news or death spreading and a blade running someone through
- dōronδῶρονa thing given: a gift handed from one party to another, whatever the setting.
- deōδέωto bind or tie: to fasten one thing to another, or to hold a person or thing in place with cords, chains, or any binding tie
- douleuōδουλεύωto serve as a slave: to belong to a master and give the obedience and labor a slave owes him
- dōdekaδώδεκαtwelve: the cardinal number 12
- deiknuōδεικνύωto show: to cause someone to see or perceive something, whether by putting it before their eyes, revealing it, explaining it, or proving it
- deiδεῖit is necessary; one must, ought, has to (an impersonal verb that names a binding necessity laid on a person or event)
- diōkōδιώκωto pursue: to chase hard after someone or something, whether to harm them, to overtake them, or to reach a goal
- dikaiōmaδικαίωμαa binding rule of what is right: a regulation, statute, or decree laid down by rightful authority
+2 more meanings
- a righteous act: a concrete deed that is right, something actually carried out rather than merely intended
- a verdict of acquittal: the ruling that clears a person and places them in the right
- diabainōδιαβαίνωto crossnot studied yet
- dokeōδοκέωto think or suppose: to hold in one's own mind an opinion about what is the case, from a confident conclusion to a guarded guess, and often one the text goes on to correct
+1 more meaning
- to seem or be reckoned: how a thing or person registers in the eyes of others, whether that is how it looks, what a group decides, or the standing a person is granted
- dechomaiδέχομαιto welcome a person: to take someone in and give them a willing, favorable reception
+1 more meaning
- to accept something offered: to take a message, gift, or object to oneself willingly
- deēsisδέησιςa need-driven petition: an urgent request to God that rises from a specific lack, brought to the one who can supply it
- diakosioiδιακόσιοιtwo hundrednot studied yet
- diatithēmiδιατίθημιto make a covenant: to put a binding covenant in place with someone, laying down its terms on your own authority
+1 more meaning
- to grant or bequeath: to settle what is yours on someone else by a formal arrangement, the way a person makes a will
- DanΔανDan; Thannot studied yet
- dikaioōδικαιόωto declare someone to be in the right: to hand down a favorable verdict, acquitting, clearing, or vindicating a person rather than making the person good
- dekatosδέκατοςtenthnot studied yet
- diaphtheirōδιαφθείρωto destroynot studied yet
- deuroδεῦροcomenot studied yet
- daimonionδαιμόνιονan evil spirit: a real, personal, malevolent being that works under Satan and is driven out by Jesus
+1 more meaning
- a lesser divine being, a deity or god of the kind the Greeks recognized
- diasōzōδιασῴζωto bring someone safely through a deadly danger and out the other side of it
- diarrēgnumiδιαρρήγνυμιrend; tearnot studied yet
- dianoiaδιάνοιαthe mind: a person's power to understand and think, bound up with the heart rather than standing apart from it as pure intellect
- dioδιόtherefore, for this reason: a word that draws a firm inference from what has just been argued
- diapsalmaδιάψαλμαinterlude; restnot studied yet
- dermaδέρμαleathernot studied yet
- dunastēsδυνάστηςrulernot studied yet
- diēgeomaiδιηγέομαιto tell something all the way through: to give the full, connected account of what happened rather than merely mention it
- diaspeirōδιασπείρωto scatternot studied yet
- desmosδεσμόςa bond or fetter: something that ties a person up, and by extension the imprisonment those bonds stand for.
- despotēsδεσπότηςan absolute master: the one who owns you outright and whose authority over you has no limit
- dolosδόλοςtrickery aimed at a person: the cunning, treachery, or crooked speech by which someone is caught off guard and taken advantage of
- dusmēδυσμήwestnot studied yet
- diastellōδιαστέλλωto give a strict, explicit order; to charge someone emphatically about what must or must not be done
- dendronδένδρονa tree: a large woody plant with a trunk, branches, and often fruit
- drumosδρυμόςthicketnot studied yet
- diaskorpizōδιασκορπίζωto scatter completely: to break up something gathered so that its parts are driven off in every direction
+1 more meaning
- to squander: to throw money or property away until nothing is left of it
- DamaskosΔαμασκόςDamascusnot studied yet
- domaδόμαgiftnot studied yet
- didaskalosδιδάσκαλοςa teacher: one who instructs others in what they should know and do
- diabolosδιάβολοςthe Devil: the personal supernatural enemy of God who accuses and tempts human beings
+1 more meaning
- slanderer: a person who damages others with false or malicious accusations and gossip
- dokimazōδοκιμάζωto put something to the test to find out whether it is genuine, and so to prove and approve it
- DareiosΔαρεῖοςDareios; Thariosnot studied yet
- deuteδεῦτεcomenot studied yet
- dianoeomaiδιανοέομαιintendnot studied yet
- dunasteiaδυναστείαpower; lordshipnot studied yet
- dipsaōδιψάωto be thirsty: to feel the body's craving for water, and by extension to long for something as keenly as a parched person longs to drink
- drakōnδράκωνthe great supernatural serpent of Revelation, named outright as Satan
- drososδρόσοςdewnot studied yet
- doruδόρυstem; treenot studied yet
- daktulosδάκτυλοςa finger: one of the digits of the hand, the part of the body that touches, dips, points, and writes
- douleiaδουλείαslaverynot studied yet
- doulēδούληsubject; maidnot studied yet
- DēmētriosΔημήτριοςDemetriusnot studied yet
- dischilioiδισχίλιοιtwo thousandnot studied yet
- diaporeuōδιαπορεύωto go throughnot studied yet
- daktuliosδακτύλιοςringnot studied yet
- diaireōδιαιρέωto apportion or distribute: to parcel out shares of something valuable and hand them to specific recipients, by the authority of the one doing the dividing.
- diakrinōδιακρίνωto tell things apart: to distinguish, discern, evaluate, or decide between them.
+2 more meanings
- to dispute or contend with someone; to take issue.
- to be divided within oneself, to waver; traditionally rendered "to doubt."
- diaskedazōδιασκεδάζωscatternot studied yet
- dakru, dakruonδάκρυ, δάκρυονa tear: the drop that falls from a weeping eye, and so, in the plural, weeping made visible.
- deomaiδέομαιto make an earnest request out of need: to ask, beg, or plead for something one lacks
- diamarturomaiδιαμαρτύρομαιto declare something with solemn, God-invoking weight: to testify to the truth, or to lay a serious charge on someone
- diastrephōδιαστρέφωto twist something out of true: to bend a straight path, a message, or a person away from where it ought to run
- dēloōδηλόωto make something clear: to bring what was unknown or unnoticed into the open, whether by telling it, pointing to it, or exposing it
- dianoigōδιανοίγωto open all the way: to take something firmly shut and lay it open, so that what was closed off can now be entered, seen, or understood
- damalisδάμαλιςheifernot studied yet
- diarpazōδιαρπάζωto robnot studied yet
- dikēδίκηcondemnationnot studied yet
- dektosδεκτόςwelcome: gladly received rather than turned away, because the one receiving has decided to show favor
- dialogismosδιαλογισμόςan inner reasoning of the heart: the thoughts, deliberations, and designs a person turns over privately, often futile or corrupt
+1 more meaning
- a dispute: the quarreling and complaining that breaks out when people press competing views
- diatassōδιατάσσωto give authoritative, detailed direction: to order, prescribe, or arrange what is to be done
- diairesisδιαίρεσιςvarietynot studied yet
- diakoneōδιακονέωto serve someone by meeting their needs: to wait on them, look after them, or carry out a task on their behalf.
- diakonosδιάκονοςa commissioned go-between: someone sent to carry out a task on behalf of a person in authority
- dōmaδῶμαa house's flat roof, treated as usable space: the level surface on top that people climbed up to, stood on, and called out from.
- diametreōδιαμετρέωmeasure offnot studied yet
- diakoniaδιακονίαa commission carried out on behalf of another: the assigned work or ministry someone is charged to do, especially in the service of God
- diktuonδίκτυονa fishing net: the ordinary, general word for the mesh of cords a fisherman used to catch and hold fish
- diamerizōδιαμερίζωto break a whole into parts that go separate ways: to share something out among several people, or to leave a group split into opposing sides
- diexodosδιέξοδοςthoroughfarenot studied yet
- dunō, dumiδύνω, δῦμιto setnot studied yet
- diaphulassōδιαφυλάσσωto protectnot studied yet
- didachēδιδαχήteaching: both the act of instructing others and the body of instruction that results.
- diplousδιπλοῦςdoublenot studied yet
- diapherōδιαφέρωto carry something through or across a place, or to be carried along by an outside force
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- to differ from something else, to be unlike it
- to be worth more than something else, to surpass it in value or importance
- diaphthoraδιαφθοράdecay: the breaking down of a dead body in the grave
- dōreaδωρεάa free gift: a bestowal granted purely on the giver's initiative, which the recipient could never earn, buy, or pay back.
- dialogizomaiδιαλογίζομαιto reason a matter through, weighing it up point by point, whether silently in one's own mind or out loud with others
- diachōrizōδιαχωρίζωbe separatednot studied yet
- didrachmosδίδραχμοςtwo-drachmanot studied yet
- doliosδόλιοςdeceitfulnot studied yet
- daneizōδανείζωto lend/borrownot studied yet
- desmiosδέσμιοςprisoner: a person held in custody, bound or under guard.
- diatēreōδιατηρέωto keepnot studied yet
- dōdekatosδωδέκατοςtwelfthnot studied yet
- dōreanδωρεάνfor nothing: with nothing given in exchange, whether that is a price, a reason, or a result
- derrisδέρριςhidenot studied yet
- diacheōδιαχέωpour throughnot studied yet
- diamenōδιαμένωto remainnot studied yet
- didaskaliaδιδασκαλίαteaching: both the act of instructing and the body of instruction that results
- dosisδόσιςgiftnot studied yet
- DebbōraΔεββωραDebbōra; Thevvoranot studied yet
- dikazōδικάζωjudge; give judgment onnot studied yet
- disδίςtwicenot studied yet
- deipnonδεῖπνονthe main, formal meal of the day: a banquet or dinner to which guests are invited
- diagōδιάγωto livenot studied yet
- dogmaδόγμαdecreenot studied yet
- deilosδειλόςcowardly: a shameful loss of nerve that is really a failure of faith, not the ordinary feeling of being afraid
- diodeuōδιοδεύωto go throughnot studied yet
- diapetannumiδιαπετάννυμιopen and spread out; opennot studied yet
- drusδρῦςoaknot studied yet
- diadēmaδιάδημαa royal headband: the cloth band tied around a king's head as the badge of his sovereignty.
- dialegōδιαλέγωto talk something through with others: to reason, discuss, and argue a case back and forth
- drepanonδρέπανονa sickle: the short curved blade a harvester swings by hand to cut a crop that has ripened
- diakoptōδιακόπτωcut throughnot studied yet
- diarpagēδιαρπαγήplundernot studied yet
- dekatēδεκάτηtithenot studied yet
- dragmaδράγμαhandful; sheafnot studied yet
- dapanaōδαπανάωto spend: to pay out or use up money and resources.
- deiliaōδειλιάωbe timidnot studied yet
- diaphorosδιάφοροςdifferentnot studied yet
- DagōnΔαγωνDagōn; Thagonnot studied yet
- diapiptōδιαπίπτωfall away; slip awaynot studied yet
- diastēmaδιάστημαintervalnot studied yet
- dikaiōsδικαίωςrightlynot studied yet
- dipsosδίψοςthirstnot studied yet
- despozōδεσπόζωlordnot studied yet
- diabēmaδιάβημαstepnot studied yet
- diatrephōδιατρέφωsupportnot studied yet
- daknōδάκνωto bitenot studied yet
- dermatinosδερμάτινοςmade of leathernot studied yet
- derōδέρωto beat up: to strike a person hard, thrashing or flogging them with repeated blows
- dēnarionδηνάριονa denarius: the Roman silver coin that paid a laborer a full day's wage
- diapheugōδιαφεύγωto escapenot studied yet
- dokosδοκόςa beam: the heavy wooden timber that carries the roof of a house
- DabirΔαβιρDabir; Thavirnot studied yet
- deinosδεινόςfearful; terriblenot studied yet
- dipsaδίψαthirstnot studied yet
- diadidōmiδιαδίδωμιto distributenot studied yet
- diaperaōδιαπεράωto crossnot studied yet
- diasporaδιασποράdispersionnot studied yet
- diatribōδιατρίβωto stay somewhere for a stretch of time: to settle into a place for days or weeks instead of passing through
- dikastēsδικαστήςmagistratenot studied yet
- diorizōδιορίζωdraw a boundary through; divide by limitsnot studied yet
- dialeipōδιαλείπωto stopnot studied yet
- dianoēmaδιανόημαthoughtnot studied yet
- diaspaōδιασπάωto tear apartnot studied yet
- diistēmiδιΐστημιto passnot studied yet
- douloōδουλόωto enslave: to put someone under another's ownership, so that they are no longer their own.
- diabasisδιάβασιςfordnot studied yet
- dorkasδορκάςkind of deernot studied yet
- daimonizomaiδαιμονίζομαιto be in the grip of an evil spirit: afflicted, controlled, or tormented by a demon
- dialuōδιαλύωto dispersenot studied yet
- diēgēsisδιήγησιςan orderly, connected account of past events: a narrative that leads the reader through a subject from beginning to end
- diōgmosδιωγμόςpersecution: deliberate, religiously motivated hostility hunted out against believers for their faith
- dokimosδόκιμοςproven genuine by testing: having withstood examination and been accepted as the real thing, and so trustworthy and esteemed.
- dabirδαβιρshrine; backroom of the templenot studied yet
- deuteroōδευτερόωrepeatednot studied yet
- diaitaδίαιταway of living; mode of lifenot studied yet
- dunasteuōδυναστεύωhold powernot studied yet
- desmeuōδεσμεύωto bindnot studied yet
- desmōtērionδεσμωτήριονprisonnot studied yet
- dēlosδῆλοςUrimnot studied yet
- diangellōδιαγγέλλωto proclaimnot studied yet
- diagonguzōδιαγογγύζωto murmurnot studied yet
- diasapheōδιασαφέωto explainnot studied yet
- dochēδοχήbanquetnot studied yet
- dromosδρόμοςracecoursenot studied yet
- diaginōskōδιαγινώσκωto decidenot studied yet
- diallassōδιαλλάσσωbe reconcilednot studied yet
- diegeirōδιεγείρωto arousenot studied yet
- drachmēδραχμήdrachmanot studied yet
- dōreōδωρέωto givenot studied yet
- diakopēδιακοπήgash; cleftnot studied yet
- diakuptōδιακύπτωstoop and creep throughnot studied yet
- diodosδίοδοςway through; thoroughfarenot studied yet