noun · neuter
thaumem
Strong’sG2295
a marvel, wonder
stem thaum-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
θαῦμα, -τος, τό,
[in LXX: Jb 17:8 18:20 20:8 21:5 (שַׂעַר, etc.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2295 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthos'-mah
wonder (properly concrete; but by implication, abstract)
Fromapparently from a form of G2300;
King Jamesadmiration.
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
Ionic dialect θῶμα (compare θαυμάζω): (see. θεάομαι):
I of objects, wonder, marvel, in Epic dialect always in singular, Refs 8th c.BC+; θαῦμ᾽ ἐτέτυκτο πελώριον, of Polyphemus, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄσπετόν τι θ., of Hercules, Refs 5th c.BC+infinitive, θ. ἰδέσθαι a wonder to behold, Refs 8th c.BC+; θαῦμ᾽ ὅτι.. strange that.., Refs 3rd c.BC+; οὐ θαῦμά [ἐστι] no wonder, Refs 5th c.BC+; so καὶ θ. γ᾽ οὐδέν and no wonder, Refs 5th c.BC+; τί τοῦτο θ.; Refs 8th c.BC+; τινος Refs 8th c.BC+; θαυμάτων κρείσσονα or πέρα things more than wondrous, Refs
I.2 in plural, also, puppetshow, toy theatre, θ. δεικνύναι, ἐπιδεικνύναι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν θ. Refs 4th c.BC+; mountebank-gambols, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τοῖς θ. ὑπεκρίνετο μίμους in the jugglers' booths, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of menageries, Refs 5th c.BC+; of mechanical devices, Refs 4th c.BC+: singular, puppet, Refs 5th c.BC+; trick, τὸ τῆς σοφιστικῆς δυνάμεως θ. Refs
II wonder, astonishment, θ. μ᾽ ἔχει ὡς.. Refs 8th c.BC+; ἔσχον θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; μ᾽ ἐλάμβανε θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; θαύματος ἄξιος worthy of wonder, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν θώματι εἶναι to be astonished, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν θώματι ἔχεσθαι, ἐνέχεσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν θ. ἐνέχεσθαί τινος at a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | thaumem1×θαῦμα | thaumeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | thaumeu | thaumeiu |
| to, for dative | thaume | thaumei |
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
thaume 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
thaumem“wonder”subject or objectdirect singular1×
2 Corinthians 11:14kai ouk thaumem, autos gar tos Satanos metaschēmatizotō eis …And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an …
thaumem1×
Revelation 17:6“amazement”… marturoiu Iēsu. Kai thaumazama horarantos autan thaumem megem;… saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.