Get to know Theotokos better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Theotokos in a sentence
Theotokos meaning
Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
Using Theotokos
- The main meaning on this page is: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
- In the example corpus, theotokos often appears in combinations such as: the theotokos, title theotokos, theotokos mother.
Context around Theotokos
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Theotokos
- In this selection, "theotokos" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, title, holy, term, mother, eirini and greek stand out and add context to how "theotokos" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the theotokos and and the theotokos mother of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "theotokos" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with theotokos
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A more accurate translation of Theotokos into Latin would be Deipara or Dei Genetrix. (14 words)
According to the teachings of the Church Fathers, the Theotokos and the saints are often described as temples of God. (20 words)
According to Eastern traditions, she retired to Ephesus with the Theotokos (Mary, the Mother of God ) and there she died. (20 words)
During the council, Nestorius defended his position by arguing there must be two persons of Christ, one human, the other divine, and Mary had given birth only to a human, hence could not be called the Theotokos, i.e. "the one who gives birth to God". (46 words)
Saturday of the Fifth Week is dedicated to the Theotokos (Mother of God), and is known as the "Saturday of the Akathist" because the Akathist to the Theotokos is chanted during Matins on that day (again, usually anticipated on Friday evening). (41 words)
Even volunteers are ready to loosen up after all the pandemic adjustments the past few years, event co-chairman Andy Gavrilos said about the annual celebration at Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church on Washington Avenue. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Celestine found that the title Theotokos Eirini Artemi, Cyril of Alexandria's critique of the term THEOTOKOS by Nestorius Constantinople, Acta theol.
Saturday of the Fifth Week is dedicated to the Theotokos (Mother of God), and is known as the "Saturday of the Akathist" because the Akathist to the Theotokos is chanted during Matins on that day (again, usually anticipated on Friday evening).
Even volunteers are ready to loosen up after all the pandemic adjustments the past few years, event co-chairman Andy Gavrilos said about the annual celebration at Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church on Washington Avenue.
From the fundraising dinner of the Dormition of the Theotokos community in Somerville in support of the renovation of its building complex.
The lecture series concludes on March 31 with Rachel Contos, MA, PhD candidate in Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University, on ‘Cultivating Our Prayer Life by Following the Example of the Theotokos‘.
According to the teachings of the Church Fathers, the Theotokos and the saints are often described as temples of God.
According to Eastern traditions, she retired to Ephesus with the Theotokos (Mary, the Mother of God ) and there she died.
A more accurate translation of Theotokos into Latin would be Deipara or Dei Genetrix.
Another frothy Baroque church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, was destroyed in 1934 and rebuilt in the 1990s.
During the council, Nestorius defended his position by arguing there must be two persons of Christ, one human, the other divine, and Mary had given birth only to a human, hence could not be called the Theotokos, i.e. "the one who gives birth to God".
For the Orthodox, Fridays throughout the year commemorate the Crucifixion of Christ and the Theotokos ( Mother of God ), especially as she stood by the foot of the cross.
He then devised a way—inspired by a vision he had of the Theotokos—of tying the knots so that the knots themselves would constantly make the sign of the cross.
His conduct shows (though hindered from a statement to that effect) that he performed this with his previous reservation; namely, without application beyond the teaching of two sons in Christ and the denial of the theotokos.
History Emergence of the Icon Apostle Luke painted icons of the Most-holy Theotokos—not just one, but three—as well as icons of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
Immediately to the right of the main gate you will always find an icon of Jesus Christ, on the left, an icon of the Theotokos (Mother of God).
Indeed, the modern Assyrian Church of the East, which reveres Nestorius, does not fully subscribe to Nestorian doctrine, though it does not employ the title Theotokos.
In medieval Greek accounts it is called the Temple of Theotokos Atheniotissa and often indirectly referred to as famous without explaining exactly which temple they were referring to, thus establishing that it was indeed well known.
In the Slavic practice, at the end of Vespers, Compline is immediately served, featuring a special Canon of the Crucifixion of our Lord and the Lamentation of the Most Holy Theotokos by Symeon the Logothete.
On the other hand, Theotokos and its precise translations explicitly relate Mary's motherhood to Jesus' birth in time and exclude any reference to Mary as Mother of God from eternity.
The council gave her the Greek title Theotokos (literally "God-bearer", or "Mother of God"), and the dedication of the large church in Rome is a response to that.
Common combinations with theotokos
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the theotokos 17×
- title theotokos 3×
- theotokos mother 3×
- theotokos by 2×
- theotokos is 2×
- theotokos greek 2×
- theotokos and 2×
- of theotokos 2×
- theotokos was 2×