παράδοξος
parádoxos · G3861 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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difficult to believe, unusual, incredible
Pertaining to being difficult to be believed
ExamplesLuke 5:26 And they were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God. They were also filled with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today!”
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unusual, remarkable
Pertaining to that which is unusual in the sense of contrary to expectations
ExamplesLuke 5:26 And they were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God. They were also filled with fear, saying, “We have seen remarkable things today!”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 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
- θαυμάσιος thaumásios · G2297 · wonderful, remarkable, marvelous
- Greek adjective meaning wonderful or marvelous, semantically overlapping with παράδοξος in describing what is extraordinary and remarkable, though θαυμάσιος emphasizes the wonder-inspiring quality rather than the element of being contrary to expectation.
- θαυμαστός thaumastós · G2298 · wonderful, remarkable, marvelous
- Greek adjective meaning wonderful or marvelous, closely synonymous with παράδοξος in describing extraordinary events, though θαυμαστός focuses more on the admirability and less on the paradoxical nature.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Difficult to believe, unusual, incredible31.44
- This domain covers παράδοξος naming an event provoking astonished disbelief, as Luke narrates the crowd's reaction to a healing: “And they were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God. They were also filled with fear, saying, ‘We have seen remarkable things today!’” (Luke 5:26)
- Unusual, remarkable58.56
- Here παράδοξος describes something outside ordinary expectation, as Luke narrates the crowd's own description of the day's healing: “And they were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God. They were also filled with fear, saying, ‘We have seen remarkable things today!’” (Luke 5:26)
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παράδοξον (παρά contrary to (see παρά, IV. 2), and δόξα opinion; hence, equivalent to ὁ…
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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