thēras

Strong’sG2339

hunting, entrapping

stem thēr-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.

θήρα, -ας, ἡ,

[in LXX for צַיִד, טֶרֶף, רֶשֶׁת, and cogn. forms;]

1. a hunting, chase (Hdt., Xen., al.).

2. prey, game (cl.).

3. As in Ps 34(35:8) = רֶשֶׁת, a net: Ro 11:9 (but v. Thayer, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2339 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidthay'-rah

hunting, i.e. (figuratively) destruction

Fromfrom θήρ (a wild animal, as game);

King Jamestrap.

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

θήρα,
Ionic dialect θήρη, ἡ, hunting of wild beasts, the chase, βάν ῥ᾽ ἴμεν ἐς θήρην Refs 8th c.BC+; ζῶσι ἀπὸ θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ πτηνοῦ γένους θ., ={ὀρνιθευτική}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ θάλατταν θ. fishing, Refs 4th c.BC+
b in Ptolemaic Egypt, στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ τὴν θ. τῶν ἐλεφάντων Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 metaphorically, eager pursuit of anything, θήραν.. ἔχομεν τόξων, ={θηρῶμεν τὰ τόξα}, Refs 5th c.BC+
II prey, game, αἶψα δ᾽ ἔδωκε θεὸς μενοεικέα θήρην Refs 8th c.BC+; πρὶν κινεῖσθαι τὴν θ. Refs 5th c.BC+; θήραν καλήν, of a prisoner, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν θ. ἐπὶ τοῦ μέσου τηροῦσα watching its prey, of a spider, Refs 4th c.BC+
III hunting-ground, preserve, Ἁδριανοῦ θῆραι Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV in Roman times, the games of the Circus, 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.

trap1×

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	thēras	thērais
object accusative	thēran1×θήραν	thērain
direct address vocative	thērar	thērair
of, belonging to genitive	thērau	thēraiu
to, for dative	thēra	thērai

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

thērstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

thēra 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.

thērem — θηρίον, a wild beast, animal

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

thēran“trap”objectaccusative singular1×

Romans 11:9… trapezas autoiu eis pagidan kai eis thēran kai eis skandalem kai eis antapodomem …… table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution …