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STRONGS NUMBER G2302

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Word Summary
theatron: a theater, a spectacle
Original Word: θέατρον
Transliteration: theatron
Phonetic Spelling: (theh'-at-ron)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a theater, a spectacle
Meaning: a theater, a spectacle
Strong's Concordance
spectacle, theatre.

From theaomai; a place for public show ("theatre"), i.e. General audience-room; by implication, a show itself (figuratively) -- spectacle, theatre.

see GREEK theaomai

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2302: θέατρον

θέατρον, θεατρου, τό (θεάομαι);

1. a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are exhibited, and public assemblies held (for the Greeks used the theatre also as a forum): Acts 19:29, 31.

2. equivalent to θεά and θέαμα, a public show (Aeschines dial. socr. 3, 20; Achilles Tatius 1, 16, p. 55), and hence, metaphorically, a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of: 1 Corinthians 4:9 (A. V. a spectacle).



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