Word

ἐκθαμβέω

ekthambéō · G1568 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to be amazed, to be astounded, to be alarmed

To be greatly astounded, with either positive or negative reactions

Examples
Mark 9:15 Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.
Mark 14:33 And He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.
Mark 16:5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1
Not stated: you (more than one) 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μήnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

λέγωto say 1
ἄρχωto be first 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

To be amazed, to be astounded, to be alarmed25.210: Used in Mark 9:15, where the crowd was greatly amazed on seeing Jesus, and in Mark 16:5, where the women at the tomb were greatly amazed at seeing the young man dressed in a white robe.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

θάμβος thámbos · G2285 · astonishment, alarm · 3×ἐκθαμβέωekthambéō · G1568θαμβέω thambéō · G2284 · to be astonished, to be startled, to be amazed · 3×ἔκθαμβος ékthambos · G1569 · amazed, utterly astonished, alarmed · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκθαμβω: Passive (present ἐκθαμβοῦμαι); 1 aorist ἐξεθαμβήθην; (ἔκθαμβος, which see); 1.…

ἐκθαμβω: Passive (present ἐκθαμβοῦμαι); 1 aorist ἐξεθαμβήθην; (ἔκθαμβος, which see);
1. transitive, to throw into amazement or terror; to alarm thoroughly, to terrify: Sir. 30:9; (Job 33:7 Aq., Complutensian).
2. intransitive, to be struck with amazement; to be thoroughly amazed, astounded; in Greek writings once, the Orphica Arg. 1217. In the N. T. only in the passive and by Mark: to be amazed, for joy at the unexpected coming of Christ, ; to be struck with terror, f; joined with ἀδημονεῖν, .

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Surprise, Astonish4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0