Word

θαῤῥέω

tharrhéō · G2292 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to be courageous, to have courage, to be bold

To have confidence and firmness of purpose in the face of danger or testing

Examples
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
2 Corinthians 5:8 but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.

How it’s used In 4 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

6 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: I 2
ἐγώI, we 1
Not stated: we 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κύριοςLord 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 3 groups

εἰςto+ σύyou 1
ἐνin+ πᾶςall, every, each 1
ἐνin+ σύyou 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

μήnot 1
πάντοτεalways 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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Near synonyms 1 word

τολμάω tolmáō · G5111 · to dare: θαρρέω and τολμάω ("to venture, to dare") both belong to the sphere of courage and boldness; θαρρέω denotes an internal disposition of assurance, while τολμάω denotes the outward act of daring.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To be courageous, to have courage, to be bold25.156: In 2 Corinthians 5:6, Paul writes, “Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,” using this verb for a bold, confident disposition.

Word family 3 words

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

θάρσος thársos · G2294 · to become confident, to take courage · 1×θαρσέω tharséō · G2293 · to be courageous, to have courage, to be bold · 7×θαῤῥέωtharrhéō · G2292

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (a form current from Plato on for the Ionic and earlier Attic θαρσέω), θαρρῶ; 1 aorist…

(a form current from Plato on for the Ionic and earlier Attic θαρσέω), θαρρῶ; 1 aorist infinitive θαρρῆσαι; (from Homer on); to be of good courage, to be hopeful, confident: 2 Cor 5:6, 2 Cor 5:8; Heb 13:6; to be bold: τῇ πεποιθήσει, with the confidence, 2 Cor 10:2; εἰς τινα, toward (against) one, 2 Cor 10:1; ἐν τίνι, the ground of my confidence is in one, I am made of good courage by one, 2 Cor 7:16. (Synonym: see τολμάω.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Courage, Boldness8 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