Lexicon thauma: a wonder Original Word: θαῦμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: thauma Phonetic Spelling: (thos'-mah) Short Definition: a marvel, wonder Definition: (a) concr: a marvel, wonder, (b) abstr: wonder, amazement. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2295 thaúma – a wonder, evoking "emotional" astonishment (gaping) at the marvel, i.e. performed to powerfully strike the viewer personally (uniquely, individually). See 2296 (thaumázō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originakin to theaomaiDefinitiona wonder NASB Translationgreatly* (1), wonder (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2295: θαῦμαθαῦμα, θαυματός, τό ( ΘΑΟΜΑΙ (to wonder at), to gaze at, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 114 under the word; Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 196; Curtius, § 308); 1. a wonderful thing, a marvel: 2 Corinthians 11:14 L T Tr WH. 2. wonder: θαυμάζειν θαῦμα μέγα (cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; (Buttmann, § 131, 5)), to wonder (with great wonder i. e.) exceedingly, Revelation 17:6. (In both senses in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. Job 17:8; Job 18:20.)
Strong's admiration. Apparently from a form of theaomai; wonder (properly concrete; but by implication, abstract) -- admiration. see GREEK theaomai |
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