θέατρον
théatron · G2302 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Thing
- TheaterMunicipal structures2 verses
Meanings
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theater
A rather large, normally semicircular open structure capable of seating several thousand people and often used for public assemblies
ExamplesActs 19:29 The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s Macedonian traveling companions.
Acts 19:31 Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.
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spectacle, unusual sight
(Derivative of θεωρέω ‘to observe,’) An unusual object or event which is observed
Examples1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind.
How it’s used In 1 role
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2 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 4
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Spectacle, unusual sight24.15
- In 1 Corinthians 4:9, Paul writes, “God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind,” using this word for an unusual, striking sight.
- Theater7.54
- In Acts 19:29, at the riot in Ephesus, “The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus,” naming this specific public building.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon θεατρου, τό (θεάομαι); 1. a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are…
1. a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are exhibited, and public assemblies held (for the Greeks used the theatre also as a forum): Acts 19:29, Acts 19:31.
2. equivalent to θεά and θέαμα, a public show (Aeschines dial. socr. 3, 20; Achilles Tatius 1, 16, p. 55), and hence, metaphorically, a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of: 1 Cor 4:9 (A. V. a spectacle).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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