2001 Translation

THAUMASTON, thaumaston

Sounds Like: thav-mas-TON

Translations: wonderful, marvelous, a wonderful thing, a marvelous thing

From the root: ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that causes wonder or astonishment. It is used to express that something is amazing, extraordinary, or remarkable. It can be used to describe events, actions, or qualities that are surprising or impressive.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G2298 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:27

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 26:1, 43:1, 43:1, 50:1

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 10:14
• 4 Maccabees — 2:1
• Psalms — 8:2, 8:10
• Proverbs — 6:30
• Sirach — 16:11, 39:20, 43:2
• Isaiah — 3:3
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• Revelation — 15:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:173, 22:177, 31:279, 33:233
• Book Two — 33:233

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 6:144, 9:230, 10:245
• Book 3 — 8:216
• Book 7 — 9:209
• Book 8 — 3:97, 11:267
• Book 10 — 10:195
• Book 13 — 6:211
• Book 17 — 6:159
• Book 18 — 6:192, 6:194

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 14:33
• Book Three — 5:38
• Book Seven — 8:13

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:7
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 39:1

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 2:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 28:58
• Judges — 13:18
• 4 Maccabees — 2:1, 14:11
• Psalms — 8:2, 8:10
• Proverbs — 6:30
• Sirach — 16:11, 43:2
• Isaiah — 3:3

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 18:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 9:30
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• Revelation — 15:1

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 14:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, a wonderful thing, wonderful things, marvels
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΑ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, wonderful things, marvelous things, amazing things
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΑΙ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΑΣ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, admirable
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΗ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, admirable
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΗΝ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, a wonderful, a marvelous, an amazing
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, admirable, a wonderful thing
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟΙ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, admirable
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟΥ — (of) wonderful, (of) marvelous, (of) amazing, (of) a wonderful one, (of) a marvelous one, (of) an amazing one
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΟΥΣ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΩ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, admirable, surprisingly, wonderfully, marvelously
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΩΝ — of wonderful things, of marvelous things, of amazing things, of admirable things
• ΘΑΥΜΑΣΤΩΣ — wonderfully, marvelously, amazingly, remarkably
• ΘΑΥΜΑΤΗ — wonderful, marvelous, amazing, a wonderful thing, a marvelous thing, an amazing thing

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