τέρας
téras · G5059 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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portent, sign
An unusual sign, especially one in the heavens, serving to foretell impending events
ExamplesMatthew 24:24 “For false christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Mark 13:22 for false christs and false prophets will arise, and will provide signs and wonders, in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.
John 4:48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ψεῦδοςlie 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- πολύςmany 2
- μέγαςgreat, large 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 2
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 4
What is done to itIt is the object
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 3
- ποιέωto do, to make 2
- εἴδωto know 1
- ἐξηγέομαιto inform 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δύναμιςpower, mighty deed 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- מוֹפֵת môwphêth · H4159 · sign, souvenir, miracle
- Hebrew מוֹפֵת (môwphêth, H4159) is the standard LXX rendering of Greek τέρας (téras, G5059), both denoting a portentous sign or wonder that functions as divine attestation; the terms operate as direct translation equivalents across the testament boundary with overlapping semantic range in miracle/sign contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Portent, sign33.480
- Jesus tells a royal official, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe” (John 4:48).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon genitive τερατος, pl. τέρατα (cf. κέρας, at the beginning), τό (apparently akin to the…
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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