Strong G2342θηρίον
wild animal
- Transliteration
- thērion
- Pronunciation
- thay-ree'-on
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
Diminutive from the same as G2339; a dangerous animal: - (venomous wild) beast.
Detailed definition
θηρίον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of θήρ), [in LXX chiefly for חַי;]
a wild beast, beast: Mrk.1:13, Act.11:6 28:4-5, Tit.1:12, Heb.12:20, Jas.3:7, Rev.6:8; of Antichrist, Rev.11:7, 13-19.†
(AS)
(dimin. of θήρ), [in LXX chiefly for חַי;]
a wild beast, beast: Mrk.1:13, Act.11:6 28:4-5, Tit.1:12, Heb.12:20, Jas.3:7, Rev.6:8; of Antichrist, Rev.11:7, 13-19.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2342 appears in 38 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- beast38
- the2
- of1
First verses
- Mark 1:13And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
- Acts 10:12Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
- Acts 11:6Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
- Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
- Acts 28:5And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
- Hebrews 12:20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
- James 3:7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
- Revelation 6:8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
- Revelation 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
- Revelation 13:1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
- Revelation 13:2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
- Revelation 13:3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
- Revelation 13:4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
- Revelation 13:11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
- Revelation 13:12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
- Revelation 13:14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
- Revelation 13:15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
- Revelation 13:17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- Revelation 13:18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
θηρίον, τό
(in form diminutive of θήρ), wild animal, especially of such as are hunted, μάλα γὰρ μέγα θηρίον ἦεν, of a stag, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.171, 180 (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; in Trag. only in Satyric drama, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 147 (uncertain in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 26): used in Prose for θήρ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.163, etc.)]; of the spider's prey, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 623a27)]; frequently of elephants, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.1.12, +others)]: plural, beasts, opposed to men, birds, and fishes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Venerem” 4, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.108.)]
2 generally, animal, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.119; νενόμισται πῦρ θ. εἶναι ἔμψυχον [prev. author] 3.16)]; of men, ἄνθρωπος πάντων θ. θεειδέστατον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 48; εἰς θηρίου βίον ἀφικνεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249b; also θ. ὕειον [prev. author] “R.” 535e)]; of the dog, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.79)]; of fishes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 598b1)]; of eels, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 147.7)]; of leeches, [Refs (“IG” 4.951.101 (Epid.))]; of other small creatures, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 552b11, 625b32, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.103, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 19.6; οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν θ. τῶν ἰχθύων ἀτυχέστερον 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 161.1; opposed to plants, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188b: proverbial, ἢ θηρίον ἢ θεός)], either above or below the nature of man, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253a29, compare “EN” 1145a25.)]
3 beast, especially as hostile and odious to man, θηρία τε καὶ βοτά carnivora and graminivora, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 237d)]; monster, creature, of sharks, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44)]; of Typhon, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 230a, “R.” 588e)]; of the Satyrs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” [same place])]; ταυτὶ ποδαπὰ τὰ θ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 184, compare “Av.” 93.)]
3.b poisonous animal, [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.75, NT.Act.28.4.)]
II in Medicine texts,= θηρίωμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 459, “Loc.Hom.” 29, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus [prev. cited])]
III as a term of reproach, beast, creature, ὦ δειλότατον σὺ θηρίον [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 439, compare “Eq.” 273; κόλακι, δεινῷ θηρίῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240b; Κρῆτες, κακὰ θ. 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1)]; δυσνουθέτητον θ., of poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 78; ἡ μουσικὴ ἀεί τι καινὸν θηρίον τίκτει 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 27, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 132)]; τί δέ, εἰ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θηρίου ἠκούσατ; said by Aeschines of Demosthenes, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Ep.” 2.3.10)]; θ. συνεστιώμενον, of woman, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 8.)]
IV Astron., the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Lupus”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.20, Vett. Val. 6.13.)]
(in form diminutive of θήρ), wild animal, especially of such as are hunted, μάλα γὰρ μέγα θηρίον ἦεν, of a stag, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.171, 180 (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; in Trag. only in Satyric drama, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 147 (uncertain in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 26): used in Prose for θήρ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.163, etc.)]; of the spider's prey, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 623a27)]; frequently of elephants, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.1.12, +others)]: plural, beasts, opposed to men, birds, and fishes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Venerem” 4, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.108.)]
2 generally, animal, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.119; νενόμισται πῦρ θ. εἶναι ἔμψυχον [prev. author] 3.16)]; of men, ἄνθρωπος πάντων θ. θεειδέστατον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 48; εἰς θηρίου βίον ἀφικνεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 249b; also θ. ὕειον [prev. author] “R.” 535e)]; of the dog, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.79)]; of fishes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 598b1)]; of eels, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 147.7)]; of leeches, [Refs (“IG” 4.951.101 (Epid.))]; of other small creatures, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 552b11, 625b32, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.103, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 19.6; οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν θ. τῶν ἰχθύων ἀτυχέστερον 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 161.1; opposed to plants, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188b: proverbial, ἢ θηρίον ἢ θεός)], either above or below the nature of man, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1253a29, compare “EN” 1145a25.)]
3 beast, especially as hostile and odious to man, θηρία τε καὶ βοτά carnivora and graminivora, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 237d)]; monster, creature, of sharks, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.44)]; of Typhon, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 230a, “R.” 588e)]; of the Satyrs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” [same place])]; ταυτὶ ποδαπὰ τὰ θ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 184, compare “Av.” 93.)]
3.b poisonous animal, [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.75, NT.Act.28.4.)]
II in Medicine texts,= θηρίωμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 459, “Loc.Hom.” 29, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus [prev. cited])]
III as a term of reproach, beast, creature, ὦ δειλότατον σὺ θηρίον [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 439, compare “Eq.” 273; κόλακι, δεινῷ θηρίῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240b; Κρῆτες, κακὰ θ. 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1)]; δυσνουθέτητον θ., of poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 78; ἡ μουσικὴ ἀεί τι καινὸν θηρίον τίκτει 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 27, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 132)]; τί δέ, εἰ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θηρίου ἠκούσατ; said by Aeschines of Demosthenes, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Ep.” 2.3.10)]; θ. συνεστιώμενον, of woman, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 8.)]
IV Astron., the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Lupus”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.20, Vett. Val. 6.13.)]