2285. thambos
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thambos: Astonishment, amazement, wonder

Original Word: θάμβος
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: thambos
Pronunciation: THAM-bos
Phonetic Spelling: (tham'-bos)
KJV: X amazed, + astonished, wonder
NASB: amazement, wonder
Word Origin: [akin to an obsolete tapho "to dumbfound"]

1. overwhelming amazement (by surprise), i.e. astonishment

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
amazed, astonished, wonder.

Akin to an obsolete tapho (to dumbfound); stupefaction (by surprise), i.e. Astonishment -- X amazed, + astonished, wonder.

HELPS Word-studies

2285 thámbos (J. Thayer traces this term back to a Sanskrit root meaning "make immoveable") – properly, utter amazement (with a sense of wonder), referring to someone who becomes stunned (dumbfounded) at what they see or hear; a state of amazement "due to the suddenness and unusualness of the phenomenon – with either a positive or a negative reaction . . . " (L & N, 1, 25.208).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from a prim. root thaph-
Definition
amazement
NASB Translation
amazement (2), wonder (1).

Forms and Transliterations
θάμβει θάμβοι θαμβος θάμβος θαμβους θάμβους thambos thámbos thambous thámbous
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Englishman's Concordance
Luke 4:36 N-NNS
GRK: καὶ ἐγένετο θάμβος ἐπὶ πάντας
NAS: And amazement came upon them all,
KJV: they were all amazed, and spake
INT: And came astonishment upon all

Luke 5:9 N-NNS
GRK: θάμβος γὰρ περιέσχεν
NAS: For amazement had seized him and all
INT: amazement indeed laid hold on

Acts 3:10 N-GNS
GRK: καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν θάμβους καὶ ἐκστάσεως
NAS: and they were filled with wonder and amazement
KJV: they were filled with wonder and
INT: and they were filled with wonder and amazement

Strong's Greek 2285
3 Occurrences


θάμβος — 2 Occ.
θάμβους — 1 Occ.

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