ἔκθαμβος
ékthambos · G1569 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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amazed, utterly astonished, alarmed
Pertaining to being astonished or alarmed
ExamplesActs 3:11 While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the portico named Solomon’s, completely astonished.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἐξίστημι exístēmi · G1839 · to astonish greatly, to greatly astound, to astound completely
- ἐξίστημι (to be amazed, astounded) is a common verb expressing astonishment or being beside oneself with amazement, overlapping semantically with ἔκθαμβος in contexts of overwhelming surprise, though ἐξίστημι is more frequent and less intensified
- θαυμάζω thaumázō · G2296 · to wonder, to be amazed, to flatter
- θαυμάζω (to marvel, wonder) expresses astonishment or amazement, though typically with less intensity than ἔκθαμβος; both describe reactions of profound surprise but θαυμάζω is broader and more common
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Amazed, utterly astonished, alarmed25.211
- Used in Acts 3:11, where all the people ran together to Peter and John at Solomon's portico, utterly astounded at the healing of the lame man.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἔκθαμβον (θάμβος, cf. ἔκφοβος), quite astonished, amazed: Acts 3:11. (Polybius 20, 10, 9.…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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