θεοῖς (theois)

θεοῖς is an Ancient Greek form of θεός, meaning “god, goddess”. It is the dative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,271 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.14: ῥέζε θεοῖς, Ἥρης δὲ Πελασγίδος οὐκ ἀλέγιζεν.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 146.2: Ἔρμαις δʼ ἔλεν ὄλπιν θέοισʼ οἰνοχόησαι.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 7.6.30: … ράτης ἐν Αὐτομόλοις χαριέντως αὐτοὺς πεποίηκεν τοὺς θεοὺς καταμεμφομένους τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τῶν ἱερῶν· ὅτε τοῖσι θεοῖσ[ι] θύετε, πρώτιστα ἀποκρίνετε τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν τὸ νομιζόμενον, κἄπειθ᾿ ὑμῖν, εἶτ᾿ (αἰσχύνη τὸ κατειπεῖν) εὖ τὼ μ …

All forms of θεός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.