Strong G2330θέρος

summer

Transliteration
theros
Pronunciation
ther'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun Neuter

Definition

From a primary word θέρω therō (to heat); properly heat that is summer: - summer.

Detailed definition

θέρος, -ους, τό
(θέρω, to heat), [in LXX chiefly for קַיִץ;]
summer: Mat.24:32, Mrk.13:28, Luk.21:30.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2330 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • summer3

First verses

  1. Matthew 24:32
    Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
  2. Mark 13:28
    Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
  3. Luke 21:30
    When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
θέρος, εος, τό,
(θέρω) summer, χείματος οὐδὲ θέρευς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.118; οὔτ᾽ ἐν θέρει οὔτ᾽ ἐν ὀπώρῃ 12.76)]; ἐν θέρει, opposed to ἐνψύχει, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 18)]; θέρεϊ or θέρει, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.151, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 640)]; τὸ θέρος during the summer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202)]; τοῦ θέρεος in the course of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.24; τοῦ θέρους 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 463)]; θέρεος or θέρους (without the Article), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 462, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276b, +others; τοῦ παρεστῶτος θέρους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1340; τοῦ θ. εὐθὺς ἀρχομένου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47; κατὰ θέρους ἀκμήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.19)]; θ. μεσοῦντος about midsummer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 1; especially in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus)], campaigning-season, ἅμα ἦρι τοῦ ἐπιγιγνομένου θέρους [Refs (4.117, compare 2.31, 6.8; τοσαῦτα μὲν ἐν τῷ θ. ἐγένετο 2.68.)]
II summerfruits, harvest, crop, θ. ἀλλότριον ἀμᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 392, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.21, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.365.3 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus): _plural_, θέρη)]crops, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PFlor. 150.5 (3rd c.AD))]; θέρη σταχύων the ripe ears, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 2: _metaphorically_, πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 822, compare “Ag.” 1655; τὸ γηγενὲς δράκοντος.. θ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1026)]; of a horse's mane, see at {θερίζω} [Refs (I.3)]; of a youth's beard, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 298, “Anthologia Graeca” 10.19 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus); also τέμνεται τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ ἀπόρρητον θ. τοῦ θεοῦ Τάλλου 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 5.168d.)]
III Astron., τὸ μέγα θ., ὅταν πάντες οἱ πλάνητες ἐν θερινῷ ζῳδίῳ γένωνται [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Aristotelis Meteora commentaria - pars” 111.30.)]
IV metaphorically, in an epitaph for a year of life, [Refs (“Supp.epigram” 2.874.4 (from Egypt).)]