adjective
thaumastas
Strong’sG2298
wonderful, marvelous
stem thaumast-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 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.
θαυμαστός, -ή, -όν
(< θαυμάζω), [in LXX for פֶּלֶא and cogn. forms (Ps 117(118):22, 23 118(119):129, Is 25:1, al.), יָרֵא ni. (Ex 15:11, Ps 64(65):5, al.), אַדִּיר (Ps 8:1, 9 92(93):4), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2298 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidthow-mas-tos'
wondered at, i.e. (by implication) wonderful
Fromfrom G2296;
King Jamesmarvel(-lous).
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-, ή, όν, wonderful, marvellous, first in neuter as adverb, θαυμαστὸν γανόωντα Refs; ἔργα μεγάλα καὶ θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. λόχος γυναικῶν, of the Furies, Refs 5th c.BC+; θ. πλέγμα, in Medicine texts, the rete mirabile, Refs 5th c.BC+, Latin mirum quantum, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδὲν θ., εἰ.., Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -τῶςRefs 5th c.BC+: neuter plural as adverb, Refs 5th c.BC+
II admirable, excellent, πατήρ, υἱός, ὄλβος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁνὴρ γὰρ οὐ στενακτὸς.., ἀλλ᾽ εἴ τις βροτῶν θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; strange, absurd, θ. καὶ γελοῖα Refs 5th c.BC+; θαυμαστὰ ἐργάζεται behaves in an extraordinary way, Refs 5th c.BC+
III to be worshipped, οὐδείς μ᾽ ἀρέσκει νυκτὶ θαυμαστὸς θεῶν 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | thaumastos | thaumastas2×θαυμαστὴ | thaumastem3×θαυμαστὸν | thaumastois | thaumastais | thaumasteim1×θαυμαστὰ |
| object accusative | thaumaston | thaumastan | thaumastoin | thaumastain | ||
| direct address vocative | thaumastor | thaumastar | thaumastoir | thaumastair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | thaumastou | thaumastau | thaumasteu | thaumastoiu | thaumastaiu | thaumasteiu |
| to, for dative | thaumasto | thaumasta | thaumaste | thaumastoi | thaumastai | thaumastei |
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
thaumast 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
thaumastas“marvelous”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 21:42… para kuriou geneta houtas, kai atō thaumastas en ofthalmoi nu?… from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Mark 12:11para kuriou geneta houtas, kai atō thaumastas en ofthalmoi nu?… from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
thaumastem“marvelous”subject or objectdirect singular3×
John 9:30“amazing”… legata autoi; En houte gar tem thaumastem atō hoti vis ouk oidavē pothen …“That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet …
1 Peter 2:9… ek skoteu vin kalarantou eis tem thaumastem autou fōtem;… you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Revelation 15:1… sēmem en to ourano megem kai thaumastem, angeloin hepta echarōntoin plēgain hepta tain …Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with …
thaumasteim“marvelous”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Revelation 15:3“marvelous”… ōdan teu arnieu legarōntois; Megeim kai thaumasteim teim ergeim su, kurior, tos theor, …… of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just …