STRONGS NUMBER G2295


Word Summary
thauma: a wonder
Original Word: θαῦμα
Transliteration: thauma
Phonetic Spelling: (thos'-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a wonder
Meaning: a wonder
Strong's Concordance
admiration.

Apparently from a form of theaomai; wonder (properly concrete; but by implication, abstract) -- admiration.

see GREEK theaomai

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2295: θαῦμα

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: 2 Corinthians 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, Revelation 17:6. (In both senses in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. Job 17:8; Job 18:20.)