Word Summary
teras: a wonder, marvel
Original Word: τέραςTransliteration: teras
Phonetic Spelling: (ter'-as)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a wonder, marvel
Meaning: a wonder, marvel
Strong's Concordance
wonder.
Of uncertain affinity; a prodigy or omen -- wonder.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5059: τέραςτέρας, genitive
τερατος, pl.
τέρατα (cf.
κέρας, at the beginning),
τό (apparently akin to the verb
τερρέω; accordingly something so strange as to cause it to be 'watehed' or 'observed'; (others connect it with
ἀστήρ,
ἀστραπή, etc., hence, 'a sign in the heavens';
Vanicek, p. 1146;
Curtius, § 205); see Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans iii., p. 270), from
Homer down, the
Sept. for
מופֵת,
a prodigy, portent; miracle (
A. V. wonder)
performed by anyone; in the N. T. it is found only in the plural and joined with
σημεῖα; for the passages see
σημεῖον, p. 574{a}.