Strong G2372θυμός

wrath

Transliteration
thumos
Pronunciation
thoo-mos'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From G2380; passion (as if breathing hard): - fierceness indignation wrath. Compare G5590 .

Detailed definition

θυμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(θύω), [in LXX most frequently for אַף, also for חֱמָא, חָרוֹן, etc., 30 words in all;]
passion, hot anger, wrath: Heb.11:27; ὀργὴ καὶ θ., Rom.2:8, cf. Col.3:8; πικρία κ. θ., Eph.4:31; πλησθῆναι, πλήρης θυμοῦ, Luk.4:28, Act.19:28; θ. ἔχειν, Rev.12:12; οἶνος τ. θυμοῦ τ. πορνείας (cf. Jer.51:7), Rev.14:8 18:3 (cf. Rev.17:2); οἶνος τ. θ. τ. θεοῦ, Rev.14:10; τ. ὀργῆς τ. θεοῦ, Rev.16:19 19:15; ὁ θ. τ. θεοῦ, Rev.14:19 15:1, 7 16:1; pl., impulses or outbursts of anger: ἔρις, ζῆλος, θυμοὶ, ἐριθίαι, 2Co.12:20, Gal.5:20 (Cremer, 287, 733).†
SYN.: ὀργή, παροργισμός (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2372 appears in 18 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • wrath15
  • fierceness2
  • indignation1

First verses

  1. Luke 4:28
    And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
  2. Acts 19:28
    And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
  3. Romans 2:8
    But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
  4. 2 Corinthians 12:20
    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  5. Galatians 5:20
    Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  6. Ephesians 4:31
    Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  7. Colossians 3:8
    But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  8. Hebrews 11:27
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
  9. Revelation 12:12
    Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
  10. Revelation 14:8
    And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
  11. Revelation 14:10
    The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
  12. Revelation 14:19
    And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
  13. Revelation 15:1
    And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
  14. Revelation 15:7
    And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
  15. Revelation 16:1
    And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
  16. Revelation 16:19
    And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
  17. Revelation 18:3
    For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
  18. Revelation 19:15
    And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
θῡμός, ὁ,
soul, spirit, as the principle of life, feeling and thought, especially of strong feeling and passion (rightly derived from θύω (B) by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 419e ἀπὸ τῆς θύσεως καὶ ζέσεως τῆς ψυχῆς):)]
I in physical sense, breath, life, θ. ἀπηύρα, ἀφελέσθαι, ἐξαίνυσθαι, ὀλέσαι, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.17, 5.852, 155, 1.205: with double _accusative_, ἄμφω θ. ἀπηύρα 6.17; ἐπεί κε.. ῥεθέων ἐκ θ. ἕληται 22.68; λίπε δ᾽ ὀστέα θ. 12.386)]; ἀπὸ δ᾽ ἔπτατο θ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.163; ὀλίγος δ᾽ ἔτι θ. ἐνῆεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.593; μόγις δ᾽ ἐσαγείρετο θυμόν 21.417; ἄψορρόν οἱ θ. ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἀγέρθη 4.152; θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς κεκαδών 11.334)]; of animals, [Refs (3.294, 12.150)], etc.: less frequently in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1388, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 620 (troch.).)]
I.2 spirit, strength, τείρετο δ᾽ ἀνδρῶν θ. ὑπ᾽ εἰρεσίης [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.78; ἐν δέ τε θ. τείρεθ᾽ ὁμοῦ καμάτῳ τε καὶ ἱδρῷ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.744.)]
I.3 πάτασσε δὲ θ. ἑκάστου each man's heart beat high, [Refs (23.370, compare 7.216.)]
II soul, as shown by the feelings and passions; and so,
II.1 desire or inclination, especially desire for meat and drink, appetite, πιέειν ὅτε θ. ἀνώγοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.263; πλησάμενος.. θυμὸν ἐδητύος ἠδὲ ποτῆτος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.603: generally, τά με θ. ἐνὶ στήθεσσι κελεύει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.68)]; βαλέειν δέ ἑ ἵετο θ[Refs (. 8.301; αἲ γάρ με μένος καὶ θ. ἀνείη 22.346)]; θ. ἐποτρύνῃ [τινά] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.139)]; θ. ἐπέσσυταί τινι, ἐφορμᾶται, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.173, 13.73)]; ἤθελε θυμῷ he wished in his heart or with all his heart, [Refs (16.255, 21.65; ἵετο θυμῷ 2.589)]; so later θυμῷ βουλόμενοι wishing with all their heart, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49; [ὄσσα ϝ] οι θ. κε θέλῃ γένεσθαι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 1.3; θυμὸς ὥρμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.25, compare 38; θυμὸς ἡδονὴν φέρει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 286; ὧν ἐρᾷ θυμός 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.61; τῶν σφι θ. ἦν μάλιστα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1; ἄλλως σφι θ. ἐγένετο θεήσασθαι τὸν πόλεμον [prev. author] 8.116, etc.: with Verb omitted, σὲ γάρ μοι θῦμος ὔμνην 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 5)]; ἄρχ᾽ αὐτὸς ὥς σοι θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1319)]; ὅπου ὑμῖν θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.37; βῆξαι θυμός ἐγγίνεται 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 8.)]
II.2 mind, temper, will, θ. πρόφρων, ἵλαος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.39, 9.639; θ. ὑπερφίαλος καὶ ἀπηνής, νηλέα θ. ἔχοντας, σιδήρεος θ., 15.94, 19.229, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.191)]; ἕνα θ. ἔχειν to be of one mind, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.710, etc.; οὐδὲ λύκοι τε καὶ ἄρνες ὁμόφρονα θ. ἔχουσιν 22.263; ἕτερος δέ με θ. ἔρυκε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.302)]; ἐμὸν θ. ἔπειθεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 33; θωπείας κολακικάς, αἳ.. τοὺς θ. ποιοῦσιν κηρίνους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 633d.)]
II.3 spirit, courage, μένος καὶ θ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.174; θ. ἐνὶ στήθεσσι λαβεῖν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.461)]; πᾶσιν δὲ παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσε θ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.280)]; ψῦχρος ἔγεντο θ., of doves, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 16; θ. ἔχειν ἀγαθόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.120; θ. οὐκ ἀπώλεσεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 26; ὁ θυμὸς εὐθὺς ἦν Ἀμυνίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 570)]; ἴωμεν ῥώμῃ καὶ θυμῷ ἐπί.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.21; φρονήματός τε καὶ θυμοῦ ἐμπίπλασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 411c: so in Philos., opposed to λόγος, ἐπιθυμία, [prev. work] 440b, +others,compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1328a7, 1327b24, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.26K., etc.)]; personified, Passion, Emotion, opposed to Λογισμός, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Cleanthes Stoicus 1.129.)]
II.4 the seat of anger, χωόμενον κατὰ θυμόν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.429; νεμεσιζέσθω ἐνὶ θυμῷ 17.254; θυμὸν ἐχώσατο 16.616, etc.)]: hence, anger, wrath, δάμασον θυμόν [Refs (9.496)]; εἴξας ᾧ θυμῷ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 598; θυμὸς μέγας ἐστὶ.. βασιλήων 2.196; θ. ὀξύς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1193; θ. κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1079, etc.)]; θυμῷ falsa lectio for{θυμοῦ} in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 718; οἱ τῷ θ. πραχθέντες φόνοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 867b)]; opposed to λογισμός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.11, etc.)]; ἐπανάγειν τὸν θ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; ἐκτείνειν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.31; καταθέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 567; δακεῖν [prev. author] “Nu.” 1369; θυμῷ χρᾶσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.137, +others; ὀργῆς καὶ θυμοῦ μεστοί 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.81 (so τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ τὸν θ., i.e. the outward manifestation of ὀ., 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.90W.))]; of horses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.2: _plural_ (not earlier than 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, _falsa lectio_ in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 718 (Lyric poetry)))], fits of anger, passions, περὶ φόβων τε καὶ θυμῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 40e; οἵ τε θ. καὶ αἱ κολάσεις [prev. author] “Prt.” 323e, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1390a11.)]
II.5 the heart, as the seat of the emotions, especially joy or grief, χαῖρε, γήθησε δὲ θυμῷ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.156, 7.189; θ. ἐνὶ στήθεσσι γεγήθει 13.494; μιν ἄχος κραδίην καὶ θ. ἵκανεν 2.171; ἄχνυτο θ. 14.39, etc.)]; δόκησε δ᾽ ἄρα σφίσι θ. ὣς ἔμεν ὡς εἰ.. they felt as glad at heart as if.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.415)]; μηδ᾽ ὀνίαισι δάμνα.. θ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.4)]; of fear, δέος ἔμπεσε θυμῷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.625, compare 8.138)]; of love, τὴν ἐκ θυμοῦ φίλεον [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (9.343; ἐκ θυμοῦ στέργοισα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.130)]; ἐμῷ κεχαρισμένε θυμῷ my heart's beloved, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.243)]; reversely, ἀπὸ θ. μᾶλλον ἐμοὶ ἔσεαι wilt be alien from my heart, [Refs (1.562)]; ἐκ θ. πεσέειν, i.e. to lose thy favour,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (23.595; ἔρωτι θυμὸν ἐκπλαγεῖσα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 8; ἐκ θ. κλαῦσαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 11.)]
II.6 mind, soul, as the seat of thought, ταῦθ᾽ ὥρμαινε κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.193, etc.; ᾔδεε γὰρ κατὰ θ. 2.409, compare 4.163, etc.)]; φράζετο θυμῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (16.646; ἐν θ. ἐβάλοντο ἔπος 15.566; τοὺς λόγους θυμῷ βάλε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 706; εἰς θ. βαλεῖν τι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 975)]; οὐκ ἐς θ. φέρω I bring him not into my mind or thoughts, [Refs ([prev. author] “El.” 1347.)]