Lexicon thériomacheó: to fight with wild beasts Original Word: θηριομαχέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: thériomacheó Phonetic Spelling: (thay-ree-om-akh-eh'-o) Short Definition: I fight with wild beasts Definition: I fight with wild beasts (i.e. wild beasts in human form); met: I am exposed to fierce hostility. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom thérion and machomaiDefinitionto fight with wild beasts NASB Translationfought with wild beasts (1), wild beasts (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2341: θηριομαχέωθηριομαχέω, θηριομάχω: 1 aorist ἐθηριομάχησα; ( θηριομαχος); to fight with wild beasts ( Diodorus 3, 43, 7; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 54; 5, 49); εἰ ἐθηριομάχησα ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, 1 Corinthians 15:32 — these words some take literally, supposing that Paul was condemned to fight with wild beasts; others explain them tropically of a fierce contest with brutal and ferocious men (so θηριομάχειν in Ignatius ad Rom. 5 [ET] (etc.); ὁιοις θηρίοις μαχομεθα says Pompey, in the Appendix, bell. 104:2,61; see θηρίον). The former opinion encounters the objection that Paul would not have omitted this most terrible of all perils from the catalog in 2 Corinthians 11:23ff
Strong's fight with wild beasts. From a compound of therion and machomai; to be a beast-fighter (in the gladiatorial show), i.e. (figuratively) to encounter (furious men) -- fight with wild beasts. see GREEK therion see GREEK machomai |
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