θήρα
thḗra · G2339 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Trap, snareHunting74 verses
Meanings
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trap, snare, means of control
A trap or snare, a device for catching animals, figuratively a means of gaining control over someone by surprise
ExamplesRomans 11:9 And David says, “MAY THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.
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
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τράπεζαtable 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 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
- παγίς pagís · G3803 · trap, snare, danger
- The target term θήρα and παγίς (“trap, snare”) both belong to the trap and snare semantic field; θήρα denotes the hunting activity or process of trapping, while παγίς denotes the mechanical device itself — an activity-versus-device distinction within the shared concept of trapping or snaring.
In the other Testament 2 words
- צַיִד tsayid · H6718 · hunting, wild game
- Greek θήρα emphasizes the act of hunting with frequent figurative extension to destruction or prey-taking, while Hebrew צַיִד denotes both the hunting activity and its concrete result (game, venison, provisions), maintaining closer ties to the literal domain of captured food.
- טֶרֶף ṭereph · H2964 · prey, victim, food
- טֶרֶף (ṭereph, H2964) טֶרֶף denotes the concrete object of hunting (prey, spoil, meat), while θήρα (thḗra, G2339) θήρα denotes the abstract act of hunting itself, though both terms share the semantic domain of predation and both extend figuratively to violent destruction or seizure.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Means of control, way of trapping37.15
- In Romans 11:9, Paul quotes David, “MAY THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM,” illustrating this word's figurative sense of a controlling snare that brings about destruction.
- Trap, snare6.24
- In the same verse, Romans 11:9, the trap named is the concrete device itself this word denotes, a snare that physically ensnares.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Latinfera; perhaps from root to run, spring, prey, Vanicek, p. 415; cf. Curtius, § 314),…
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
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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