Lexical Summary Artemis: Artemis, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt Original Word: ἌρτεμιςTransliteration: 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: ἌρτεμιςἌρτεμις, Ἀρτέμιδος and Ἀρτεμιος, ἡ, 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 |
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