Quick Definition
θῆλυς, εια, υ Adj female
Strong's Definition
from the same as 2337; female
KJV Usage: female, woman
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς, -eva, τυ, [cf. θηλάζω, init.], of the female sex; ἡ θήλεια, subst. a woman, a female: Ro. i. 26 sq-; also τὸ tee Mt. xix. 4; Mk. x. 6; Gal. iii. 28. (Gen. i. 27; vii. 2; Ex. i. 16, ete.; in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θῆλυς thēlys 5x
female; τὸ θῆλυ, i.e. γένος, a female, Mt. 19:4; Mk. 10:6; Gal. 3:28; ἡ θήλεια, woman, Rom. 1:26, 27*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θῆλυς, -εια, -υ,
[in LXX chiefly for נְקֵבָה;]
female: as subst., ἡ θ., a female, a woman: Ro 1:26, 27; τὸ θ., Mt 19:4, Mk 10:6, Ga 3:28.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θῆλυς. A striking ex. of this adj. occurs in P Oxy IV. γ4419 (B.C. 1) (= Selections, p. 33) where a husband writes to his wife with reference to an unborn child—éav ἣν ἄρσενον, ἄφες, ἐὰν ἣν θήλεα, ἔκβαλε, “if it isa male, let it live; if it is a female, expose it.” The word is common with reference to animals, e.g. P Ἀγ] 11. 145}5 (a.p. 38) ὄνον θήλειαν, PSI I. 39° (A.D. 148) troy (2. ἵππον) θήλειαν, and P Strass I. 30° (A.D. 276) αἶγας θηλείας τε[λ]είας ἀθανάτους, already cited 5.7. ἀθανασία, but recalled to correct the unfortunate blunder by which ἀθανάτους is there referred to the goats’ “constitution” instead of to their ‘‘number”: they were “‘immortal’’ in the same sense as the Persian Guard, in that the stock was to be kept up at its full strength (‘‘ eiserner Bestand”’). For the form θηλυκός, as in MGr, see P Oxy XII. 14581? (A.D. 216-17) mp[6B (ara) ξ, &]pp(eva) £, θηλ(υκὰ) A[., ‘£60 sheep, 7 male, 3[.] female’’ (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
θῆλυς (thēlus) — female. θῆλυς, θήλεια, θῆλυ: Epic dialect feminine θήλεα, accusative plural -εας[Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative feminine θηλείην uncertain reading in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in late Prose θηλύτερος, -ύτατος occur as comparative and superlative (see. below 11): (θη- 'suckle', compare θῆσαι):—female, θήλεια θεός a goddess, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ἥρη θῆλυς ἐοῦσα being female,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; θήλειαι ἵπποι mares, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄϊς θῆλυς a ewe, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; θήλεια ἔλαφος a hind, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ θ. ἵππος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζῷα θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄπαις θήλεος γόνου without female issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+] the she-mule, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b ἡ θήλεα, Attic dialect -εια, the female, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __c τὸ θ. γένος the female sex, woman-kind, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ θ. alone, [Refs]; opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __d of plants and trees, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. of or belonging to women, κουράων θῆλυς ἀϋτή [Refs 8th c.BC+]; θήλεα νοῦσος among the Scythians (compare Ἐνάρεες), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. φόνος murder by women, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. metaphorically, of persons and things,
II.1. soft, gentle, θῆλυς ἐέρση [Refs 8th c.BC+]; θ. νύξ (={ὕπομβρος}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.1. b ὕδωρ θ. καὶ μαλακόν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; θηλύτατον πεδίον most fruitful, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; θηλύτατον ὕδωρ of the Nile, [Refs]
II.2. tender, delicate, Φοίβου θήλειαι.. παρειαί [Refs]; θῆλυς ἀπὸ χροιῆς delicate of skin, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of temper or character, soft, yielding, weak, θῆλυς ηὕρημαι τάλας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ θῆλυ τῆς ψυχῆς effeminacy, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3. in mechanics, those parts were called female into which others fitted, as the female vertebra, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.4. Grammars, feminine, θήλεα [ὀνόματα] [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.5. [Refs 4th c.BC+], of even numbers, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.6. Astrology texts, of planets, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III. θήλειαι, αἱ, kind of cheese made in Crete, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]