Greek verb · G2284
θαμβέω
thambeotham-beh'-o
to be amazed.; In late Gk., to astonish, terrify
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thambéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2284is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2284
to stupefy (with surprise), i.e. astound
The King James renders it: amaze, astonish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
thambeo is rendered "to be amazed.; In late Gk., to astonish, terrify". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to be amazed.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 1:27All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
Mark 1:27ἐθαμβήθησαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Mark.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to be amazed., and In late Gk., to astonish, terrify.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to be amazed. | Tagged as
| WhereMark 1:27All the people were amazed and began to ask one another… |
| In late Gk., to astonish, terrify2Ki.22:5): pass. | Tagged as
| Where2 Samuel 22:5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θάμβος | thambos | amazement | Uses3 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐθαμβοῦντο2
- ἐθαμβήθησαν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IPI-3P
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
Mark
three uses
All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- ἐθαμβήθησανethambethesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were astonished
And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
- ἐθαμβοῦντοethambountoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were astonished
As they were going up the road to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him:
- ἐθαμβοῦντοethambountoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were astonished
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.