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Diana

A celebrated goddess of the Heathens, who was honoured principally at Ephesus, Acts xix. She was one of the number of the twelve superior deities, and was called by the several names of Hebe, Trivia, and Hecate. Diana is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “luminous, perfect.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
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  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G0735
Greek
Ἄρτεμις · Ártemis
Name meaning
luminous, perfect According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

Ἄρτεμις

G0735
Transliteration
Ártemis
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
5

Glosses

Diana

Lexicon definition

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Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Diana

luminous, perfect

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

DIANA

a celebrated goddess of the Heathens, who was honoured principally at Ephesus, Acts xix. She was one of the number of the twelve superior deities, and was called by the several names of Hebe, Trivia, and Hecate. In the heavens she was the moon, upon earth she was called Diana, and in hell Hecate. She was worshipped in Palestine, Jeremiah vii, 18; xliv, 17, 18.

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DIANA

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Diana

Meaning:
luminous, perfect

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Ancient Context1 items
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DIANA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for DIANA.

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Diana

luminous, perfect

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Shrines, Silver

Little models and medallions of the temple and image of Diana of Ephesus (Acts 19:24). The manufacture of these was a very large and profitable business.

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Temple

First used of the tabernacle, which is called "the temple of the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ's human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called "the temple of God" (1 Cor. 3:16, 17). The Church is designated "an holy temple in the Lord" (Eph. 2:21). Heaven is also called a temple (Rev. 7:5). We read also of the heathen "temple of the great goddess Diana" (Acts 19:27). This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God. It is called "the temple" (1 Kings 6:17); "the temple [R.V., 'house'] of the Lord" (2 Kings 11:10); "thy holy temple" (Ps. 79:1); "the house of the Lord" (2 Chr. 23:5, 12); "the house of the God of Jacob" (Isa. 2:3); "the house of my glory" (60:7); an "house of prayer" (56:7; Matt. 21:13); "an house of sacrifice" (2 Chr. 7:12); "the house of their sanctuary" (2 Chr. 36:17); "the mountain of the Lord's house" (Isa. 2:2); "our holy and our beautiful house" (64:11); "the holy mount" (27:13); "the palace for the Lord God" (1 Chr. 29:1); "the tabernacle of witness" (2 Chr. 24:6); "Zion" (Ps. 74:2; 84:7). Christ calls it "my Father's house" (John 2:16).

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Worshipper

(Gr. neocoros = temple-sweeper (Acts 19:35) of the great goddess Diana). This name neocoros appears on most of the extant Ephesian coins

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