adjective
thaumasiem
Strong’sG2297
wonderful
stem thaumasi-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
θαυμάσιος, -α, -ον
(< θαῦμα), [in LXX chiefly for פּלא ni. (n. pl. = נִפְלָאוֹת);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2297 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthow-mas'-ee-os
wondrous, i.e. (neuter as noun) a miracle
Fromfrom G2295;
King Jameswonderful thing.
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 θωμ-, rarely ος, ον Refs 2nd c.AD+:— wonderful, marvellous, ὄσσα Refs 8th c.BC+; θωμάσια wonders, marvels, Refs: superlative -ώτατα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἧττον θαυμαστά, καίπερ ὄντα θαυμάσια less admired, though admirable, Refs 1st c.AD+: with infinitive, τέρας θ. προσιδέσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ θ. [ἐστι] with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. τοῦ κάλλους marvellous for beauty, Refs 5th c.BC+ exceedingly, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ -ώτατον what is most wonderful, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 adverb -ίως wonderfully, i.e. exceedingly, Refs 5th c.BC+ marvellously wretched, Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. ἂν ὡς ηὐλαβούμην I should be wonderfully cautious, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 disposed to wonder, in adverb, ὧν οὐ -ίως γ᾽ ἔχουσι Refs 5th c.BC+
II admirable, excellent, with slight irony, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὦ -ώτατε ἄνθρωπε, in scorn, Refs 5th c.BC+
III θ. καὶ ἄλογον strange and absurd, Refs 5th c.BC+; θαυμάσια.. ἐργαζομένους behaving in an extraordinary manner, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | thaumasios | thaumasias | thaumasiem | thaumasiois | thaumasiais | thaumasieim1×θαυμάσια |
| object accusative | thaumasion | thaumasian | thaumasioin | thaumasiain | ||
| direct address vocative | thaumasior | thaumasiar | thaumasioir | thaumasiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | thaumasiou | thaumasiau | thaumasieu | thaumasioiu | thaumasiaiu | thaumasieiu |
| to, for dative | thaumasio | thaumasia | thaumasie | thaumasioi | thaumasiai | thaumasiei |
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
thaumasi 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
thaumasieim“wonderful things”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Matthew 21:15“wonderful things”… tois archierevois kai tois grammatevois teim thaumasieim heim poiata kai toin paidoin toin …But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts …