Ω

Ω, ὦ, τό last (24th) letter of the Gk. alphabet, o(mega) in our lit. as symbol (in conjunction w. ἄλφα) of an entity that is in control of everything from beginning to end, last, end, omega: ἐγώ (εἰμι) τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ Rv 1:8; 21:6; 22:13; cp. 1:11 v.l. ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ Α καὶ τὸ Ω I am the A and the Ō (=‘the A and the Z’, i.e. ‘the First and the Last’).—S. the entry Α; also EbNestle, Philol. 70, 1911, 155–57 and lit. cited EDNT s.v. Ἄλφα. The name ω μέγα does not appear until the Byzantine period, s. Theognostos, Canones 13, in Anecdota Graeca, ed. JCramer, II (1835–37).—DELG.