Quick Definition
a marvel, wonder
Strong's Definition
wonder (properly concrete; but by implication, abstract)
Derivation: apparently from a form of G2300 (θεάομαι);
KJV Usage: admiration
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θαῦμα, θαυματός, τό (ΘΑΟΜΑΙ (to wonder at), to gaze at, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 114 under the word; Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 196; Curtius, § 308);
1. a wonderful thing, a marvel: 2Co_11:14 L T Tr WH.
2. wonder: θαυμάζειν θαῦμα μέγα (cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; (Buttmann, § 131, 5)), to wonder (with great wonder i. e.) exceedingly, Rev_17:6. (In both senses in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. Job_17:8; Job_18:20.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θαῦμα thauma 2x
a wonder; wonder, admiration, astonishment, 2Co_11:14 ; Rev_17:6
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
θαῦμα , -τος , τό ,
[in LXX : Job_17:8 ; Job_18:20 ; Job_20:8 ; Job_21:5 ( H8178 , etc.) * ;]
1. a wonder: 2Co_11:14 .
2. wonder: Rev_17:6 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θαῦμα [page 284]
For this subst. (MGr θᾶμα ), which in the NT is confined to 2Co_11:14 , Rev_17:6 , we may cite Preisigke 1002 (time of Diocletian?) where a certain Antonius Theodoras states that he had stayed for a considerable time ἐν τῇ βασιλ [ευ ]ο [ύ ]σῃ Ῥώμῃ . . . καὶ τὰ ἐκεῖ θαύματ [α ] εἶδον καὶ τὰ ἐνταῦθα , and ib. 1909 Καθολικὸς Θέοδμος [ . . ]ν ἤγαγεν ἐς τόδε θαῦ [μα , and the poetical inscr. describing the foundation of Magnesia in which the words occur καὶ θαῦμα καταθνητοῖσιν ἐφάνθη ( Magn 17 .18 ). See also the sepulchral inscr. Kaibel 591 .2 (ii/iii A.D.) where a certain Nilus is described as
ῥητορικός , μέγα θαῦμα , φέρων σημεῖον ἐφ᾽ αὑτῷ ,
and ib. 909 .5 (iv/A.D.)
Πάντη Πλουτάρχοιο κλέος , πάντη δέ τε θαῦμα ,
πάντη δ᾽ εὐνομίης εὖχος ἀπειρέσιον .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
θαῦμα θαῦμα, ατος, τό, [Etym: θάομαι] of objects, "whatever one regards with wonder, a wonder, marvel", Hom. , Hes. ; θαῦμα, of Polypheme, Od. ; θαῦμα βροτοῖσι, of a beautiful woman, id=Od. ; c. inf., θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι or ἰδεῖν "a wonder" to behold, id=Od. , Eur. ; καὶ θαῦμά γ᾽ οὐδέν and no "wonder", Ar. : —θῶμα ποιεῖσθαί τι Hdt. :—in pl., θαύματ᾽ ἐμοὶ κλύειν Aesch. ; θαυμάτων κρείσσονα or πέρα things more than "wondrous", Eur. in pl. also "jugglers' tricks, mountebank-gambols", Xen. , etc. of the feeling, "wonder, astonishment", Od. , etc.; ἐν θώματι εἶναι or γίγνεσθαι "to be astonished", Hdt. , Thuc. ; τινός "at" a thing, Hdt.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
θαῦμα, -τος, τό
[in LXX: Job.17:8 18:20 20:8 21:5 (שַׂעַר, etc.)* ;]
__1. a wonder: 2Co.11:14.
__2. wonder: Rev.17:6.†
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