Original Word: θαμβέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: thambeó
Phonetic Spelling: (tham-beh'-o)
Short Definition: I amaze
Definition: I amaze; pass: I am amazed (almost terrified).

Cognate: 2284 thambéō – to astonish, amaze (passive, dumbfounded) to the point of becoming emotionally "stalled" ("shutting down") – also implying a sense of wonder or terror (Vine, Unger, White). See 2285 (thambos).

STRONGS NT 2284: θαμβέω

θαμβέω, θαμβω; passive, imperfect ἐθαμβουμην; 1 aorist ἐθαμβήθην; (θάμβος, which see);

1. to be astonished: Acts 9:6 Rec. (Homer, Sophocles, Euripides)

2. to astonish, terrify: 2 Samuel 22:5; passive to be amazed: Mark 1:27; Mark 10:32; followed by ἐπί with the dative of the thing, Mark 10:24; to be frightened, 1 Macc. 6:8; Wis. 17:3; Plutarch, Caesar 45; Brut. 20. (Compare: θάμβος (allied with τάφος amazement, from a Sanskrit root signifying to render immovable; Curtius, § 233; Vanicek, p. 1130), θάμβους, τό; from Homer down; amazement: Luke 4:36; Luke 5:9; Acts 3:10.

amaze, astonish.

From thambos; to stupefy (with surprise), i.e. Astound -- amaze, astonish.

see GREEK thambos

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