noun · neuter
tharsem
Strong’sG2294
courage
stem thars-once in the New Testament0 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.
θάρσος, -ους, τό,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2294 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthar'-sos
boldness (subjectively)
Fromakin (by transposition) to θράσος (daring);
King Jamescourage.
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
Attic dialect θάρρος, Aeolic dialect θέρσος (which see), εος, τό, (θρασύς) courage, Refs 8th c.BC+; θ. τινός courage to do a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, courage against.. , πολεμίων Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. ἴσχε take courage! NT+8th c.BC+; τῷ δ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ θῆκε.. θRefs 8th c.BC+; παρασχεῖν, ἐμποιεῖν τινι, Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. ἐγγίγνεται, ἐμπίπτει τινί, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 that which gives courage, ὀλολυγμόν.., θάρσος φίλοις Refs 4th c.BC+ grounds of confidence, Refs 5th c.BC+
II rarely in bad sense, ={θράσος}, audacity, θάρσος ἄητον ἔχουσα Refs 8th c.BC+; μυίης θάρσος ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἐνῆκεν the reckless persistence of a fly, Refs.—On the different of θάρσος and θράσος, see at {θράσος}.
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 | tharsem | tharseim |
| of, belonging to genitive | tharseu | tharseiu |
| to, for dative | tharse | tharsei |
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
tharse 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
tharsem1×
Acts 28:15“courage”… tos Paulos eucharistarantos to theo labata tharsem.… us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.