STRONGS NUMBER G2296

Original Word: θαυμάζω
Transliteration: thaumazō
Phonetic Spelling: (thou-mad'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to marvel, wonder
Meaning: to marvel, wonderadmire, marvel, wonder.

From thauma; to wonder; by implication, to admire -- admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.

see GREEK thauma

STRONGS NT 2296: θαυμάζω

θαυμάζω; imperfect ἐθαύμαζον; future θαυμάσομαι (Revelation 17:8 R G T Tr, a form far more common in the best Greek writings also than θαυμάσω; cf. Krüger, § 40, under the word; Kühner, § 343, under the word; (Veitch, under the word)); 1 aorist ἐθαύμασα; 1 aorist passive ἐθαυμασθην in a middle sense (Revelation 13:3 Rst L Tr text); also 1 future passive, in the sense of the middle, θαυμασθήσομαι (Revelation 17:8 L WH; but the very few examples of the middle use in secular authors are doubtful; cf. Stephanus, Thesaurus iv., p. 259f; (yet see Veitch, under the word)); to wonder, wonder at, marvel: absolutely, Matthew 8:10, 27; Matthew 9:8 Rec., ; ; Mark 5:20; Mark 6:51 (Rec.; L brackets Tr marginal reading brackets); Mark 15:5; Luke 1:21 (see below),; ; John 5:20; John 7:15; Acts 2:7; Acts 4:13; Acts 13:41; Revelation 17:7f; with the accusative of the person Luke 7:9; with the accusative of the thing, Luke 24:12 (T omits; L Tr brackets; WH reject the verse (see πρός, I. 1 a. at the beginning and 2 b.)); John 5:28; Acts 7:31; θαῦμα μέγα (see θαῦμα, 2), Revelation 17:6; πρόσωπον, to admire, pay regard to, one's external appearance, i. e. to be influenced by partiality, Jude 1:16 (the Sept. for פָּנִים נָשָׂא, Deuteronomy 10:17; Job 13:10; Proverbs 18:5; Isaiah 9:14, etc.); followed by διά τί, Mark 6:6; John 7:21 where διά τοῦτο (omitted by Tdf.) is to be joined to Mark 7:21 (so G L Tr marginal reading; cf. Meyer (edited by Weiss) at the passage; Winers Grammar, § 7, 3) (Isocrates, p. 52 d.; Aelian v. h. 12, 6; 14, 36); (followed by ἐν with the dative of object, according to the construction adopted by some in Luke 1:21, ἐθαύμαζον ἐν τῷ χρονίζειν ... αὐτόν, at his tarrying; cf. Winers Grammar, § 33, b.; Buttmann, 264 (227); 185 (160f); Sir. 11:19 (21); evang. Thom. 15, 2; but see above); followed by ἐπί with the dative of person Mark 12:17 (R G L Tr); by ἐπί with the dative of the thing, Luke 2:33; Luke 4:22; Luke 9:43; Luke 20:26; (Acts 3:12) (Xenophon, Plato, Thucydides, others; the Sept.); περί τίνος, Luke 2:18; by a pregnant construction (cf. Buttmann, 185 (161)) ἐθαύμασεν ἡ γῆ ὀπίσω τοῦ θηρίου, followed the beast in wonder, Revelation 13:3 (cf. Buttmann, 59 (52)); followed by ὅτι, to marvel that, etc., Luke 11:38; John 3:7; John 4:27; Galatians 1:6; by εἰ (see εἰ, I. 4), Mark 15:44; 1 John 3:13. Passive to be wondered at, to be had in admiration (Sir. 38:3; Wis. 8:11; 4 Macc. 18:3), followed by ἐν with the dative of the person whose lot and condition gives matter for wondering at another, 2 Thessalonians 1:10; ἐν with the dative of the thing, Isaiah 61:6. (Compare: ἐκθαυμάζω.)