Lexicon thambos: amazement Original Word: θάμβος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: thambos Phonetic Spelling: (tham'-bos) Short Definition: astonishment Definition: astonishment, amazement (allied to terror or awe). HELPS word-Studies 2285 thámbos (J. Thayer traces this term back to a Sanskrit root meaning "make immoveable") – properly, utter amazement (with a sense of wonder), referring to someone who becomes stunned (dumbfounded) at what they see or hear; a state of amazement "due to the suddenness and unusualness of the phenomenon – with either a positive or a negative reaction . . . " (L & N, 1, 25.208). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prim. root thaph- Definitionamazement NASB Translationamazement (2), wonder (1).
Strong's amazed, astonished, wonder. Akin to an obsolete tapho (to dumbfound); stupefaction (by surprise), i.e. Astonishment -- X amazed, + astonished, wonder. |
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