STRONGS NUMBER G735


Word Summary
Artemis: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Original Word: Ἄρτεμις
Transliteration: Artemis
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-tem-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Meaning: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt
Strong's Concordance
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

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 735: Ἄρτεμις

Ἄρτεμις, Ἀρτέμιδος and Ἀρτεμιος, , 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).