noun · neuter
thambem
Strong’sG2285
astonishment
stem thamb-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
θάμβος, -ους, τό,
[in LXX for פַּחַד, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2285 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtham'-bos
stupefaction (by surprise), i.e. astonishment
Fromakin to an obsolete τάφω (to dumbfound);
King JamesX amazed, + astonished, wonder.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ὁ LXX+4th c.BC+: (τέθηπα):— amazement, θ. δ᾽ ἔχεν εἰσορόωντας Refs 8th c.BC+
2 in objective sense, θάμβοι terrors in the way, Refs; object of wonder, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | thambem2×θάμβος | thambeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | thambeu1×θάμβους | thambeiu |
| to, for dative | thambe | thambei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
thambe is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
thambem“amazement”subject or objectdirect singular2×
Luke 4:36kai geneta thambem epi pantoin, kai sullalale pros allēloin …All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is …
Luke 5:9thambem gar periechata auton kai pantoin toin …For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they …
thambeu“wonder”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 3:10… Hōraia Pula teu hiereu, kai pimplēila thambeu kai ekstasiau epi te sumbainarēnte auto.… temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened …