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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JU'PITER, n. [L. the air or heavens; Jovis pater.]
1. The supreme deity among the Greeks and Romans.
2. One of the superior planets, remarkable for its brightness. Its diameter is about eighty-nine thousand miles; its distance from the sun, four hundred and ninety millions of miles, and its revolution round the sun a little less than twelve years.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky
2: (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus [syn: Jupiter, Jove]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Latin Date: 13th century 1. the chief Roman god, husband of Juno, and god of light, of the sky and weather, and of the state and its welfare and its laws — compare Zeus 2. the largest of the planets and fifth in order from the sun — see planet table II. geographical name town SE Florida population 39,328

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the largest planet of the solar system, orbiting about the sun between Mars and Saturn. Etymology: ME f. L Jupiter king of the gods f. OL Jovis pater

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jupiter Ju"pi*ter, n. [L., fr. Jovis pater. See Jove.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus. 2. (Astron.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity. Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. --Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms.

Hitchcock Bible Dictionary

the father that helpeth

Easton's Bible Dictionary

the principal deity of the ancient Greeks and Romans. He was worshipped by them under various epithets. Barnabas was identified with this god by the Lycaonians (Acts 14:12), because he was of stately and commanding presence, as they supposed Jupiter to be. There was a temple dedicated to this god outside the gates of Lystra (14:13).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

joo'-pi-ter, ju'-pi-ter (Zeus): "Jupiter" is mentioned in 2 Macc 6:2; Ac 14:12,13, with "Zeus" in the Revised Version margin in all cases. In addition the Greek stem appears in diopetous, in Ac 19:35, English Versions of the Bible "which fell down from Jupiter"; but the word means "from the clear sky" (compare "from heaven" in the Revised Version margin). "Jupiter" was considered the Latin equivalent of the Greek "Zeus," the highest god in the developed Greek pantheon, and Zeus in turn, in accord with the syncretism of the period, was identified with countless deities in the local cults of Asia Minor and elsewhere. So in Ac 14:12,13, "Zeus" and "Hermes" are local deities that had been renamed. On the other hand, the Zeus of 2 Macc 6:2 is the genuine Greek deity, who had been adopted as a special patron by Antiochus Epiphanes and to whose temple in Athens Antiochus had contributed largely. The title "Olympius" (2 Macc 6:2) is derived from the early worship on Mt. Olympus, but had come to be thought one of the god's highest appellations; Xenios, "protector of strangers," was a title in a cult particularly popular with travelers.

See ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, and Smith, HGHL, 333-34.

Burton Scott Easton

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