noun · feminine
theōrias
Strong’sG2335
a sight, spectacle
stem theōri-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
θεωρία, -ας, ἡ
(v.s. θεωρέω), [in LXX: Da LXX 5:7, II Mac 5:26 15:12, III Mac 5:24*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2335 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtheh-o-ree'-ah
spectatorship, i.e. (concretely) a spectacle
Fromfrom the same as G2334;
King Jamessight.
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 θεωρίη, Doric dialect θεᾱρία (see. below), Boeotian dialect θιαωρία Ἐφ.Ἀρχ. 1892.34: ἡ:— sending of θεωροί or state-ambassadors to the oracles or games, or, collectively, the θεωροί themselves, embassy, mission, θεωρίαν ἀπάγειν εἰς Δῆλον Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄγειν τῷ Διὶ τῷ Νεμείῳ τὴν κοινὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως θ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 office of θεωρός, discharge of that office, τῆς Ὀλυμπίαζε θ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II being a spectator at the theatre or games, Refs 5th c.BC+
III viewing, beholding, θεωρίης εἵνεκεν ἐκδημεῖν to go abroad to see the world, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ θεωρίης πρόφασινRefs 5th c.BC+; pilgrimage, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 of the mind, contemplation, consideration, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν ἀρχῶν, ἡ τῶν ὅλων θ., Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ φύσεως θ. Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2.b theory, speculation, opposed to practice, Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἡ περὶ τὰ στρατόπεδα θ. Refs; αἱ νυκτεριναὶ καὶ ἡμεριναὶ θ. theoretic reckoning of night and day, Refs; ἡ μαθηματικὴ θ. Refs 1st c.AD+
III.3 passive, sight, spectacle, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially public spectacle at the theatre or games, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τοῦ Διονύσου θ. the Dionysia, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.4 Rhet., explanatory preface to a μελέτη, Refs 6th c.AD+: so in Philos., continuous exposition, Refs 6th c.AD+
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 nominative | theōrias | theōriais |
| object accusative | theōrian1×θεωρίαν | theōriain |
| direct address vocative | theōriar | theōriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | theōriau | theōriaiu |
| to, for dative | theōria | theōriai |
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
theōria 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
theōrian“spectacle”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 23:48… pantois tois sumparagenerantois ochlois epi tan theōrian houtan, theōrarantois teim generanteim, tuptarōntois teim …… people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned …