θαῦμα
thaûma · G2295 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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wonder, amazement
A state of wonderment or amazement, usually with the implication of marveling
ExamplesRevelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.
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wonder, miracle, something to be wondered at
An event which causes someone to wonder or marvel
Examples2 Corinthians 11:14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέγαςgreat, large 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θαυμάζωto marvel, to wonder 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 2 words
- σημεῖον sēmeîon · G4592 · sign
- While σημεῖον emphasizes the sign-function or evidential nature of a miracle, it frequently overlaps with θαῦμα in contexts denoting miraculous events; both can denote a wonder-working event, though θαῦμα focuses more on the wonder-aspect and σημεῖον on the sign-aspect.
- τέρας téras · G5059 · portent, sign
- Closely related term denoting a prodigy or portent; often paired with σημεῖον in the phrase 'signs and wonders' (σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα); overlaps with θαῦμα in the sense of a miraculous or extraordinary phenomenon, though τέρας may carry more connotation of a portentous event.
In the other Testament 2 words
- מוֹפֵת môwphêth · H4159 · sign, souvenir, miracle
- Standard Hebrew translation equivalent for θαῦμα in the sense of a miraculous wonder or sign; frequently used in LXX to render מוֹפֵת and vice versa in the context of divine signs and wonders.
- פֶּלֶא peleʼ · H6382 · miracle, marvel
- Hebrew noun denoting a wonder or marvel, particularly something extraordinary or miraculous; overlaps semantically with θαῦμα in contexts describing miraculous phenomena.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Wonder, amazement25.212
- In Revelation 17:6, John writes, “When I saw her, I wondered greatly,” using this word for a reaction of astonishment.
- Wonder, miracle, something to be wondered at25.216
- In 2 Corinthians 11:14, Paul writes, “No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light,” using this word for the remarkable thing itself that provokes astonishment.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θαυματός, τό (ΘΑΟΜΑΙ (to wonder at), to gaze at, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. §…
1. a wonderful thing, a marvel: 2 Cor 11:14 L T Tr WH.
2. wonder: θαυμάζειν θαῦμα μέγα (cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; (Buttmann, § 131, 5)), to wonder (with great wonder i. e.) exceedingly, Rev 17:6. (In both senses in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. Job 17:8; Job 18:20.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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