Greek verb · G2341
θηριομαχέω
theriomacheothay-ree-om-akh-eh'-o
to fight beasts
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: thēriomachéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2341is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2341
to be a beast-fighter (in the gladiatorial show), i.e. (figuratively) to encounter (furious men)
The King James renders it: fight with wild beasts.
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
theriomacheo is rendered "to fight beasts". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 15:32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
The first use
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
1 Corinthians 15:32ἐθηριομάχησα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I fought wild beasts1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| θηρίον | therion | wild animal | Uses46 |
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἐθηριομάχησα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
1 Corinthians
one use
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
- ἐθηριομάχησαetheriomachesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I fought wild beasts
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.