Lexical Summary
thaumastos: Wonderful, marvelous, astonishing
Original Word: θαυμαστός
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: thaumastos
Pronunciation: thou-mas-TOS
Phonetic Spelling: (thow-mas-tos')
KJV: marvel(-lous)
NASB: marvelous, amazing thing
Word Origin: [from G2296 (θαυμάζω - amazed)]
1. wondered at
2. (by implication) wonderful
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
marvelous.
From thaumazo; wondered at, i.e. (by implication) wonderful -- marvel(-lous).
see GREEK thaumazo
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 2298 thaumastós – marvelous, describing an awe-evoking sight (dramatic sense of wonder), moving the beholder to their deepest emotions. See 2296 (thaumázō).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
thaumazóDefinitionwonderful
NASB Translationamazing thing (1), marvelous (5).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2298: θαυμαστόςθαυμαστός,
θαυμαστή,
θαυμαστόν (
θαυμάζω), in Greek writings from (
Homer (h. Cer. etc.)),
Herodotus,
Pindar down; (interchanged in Greek writings with
θαυμάσιος, cf. Lob. Path. Elem. 2:341);
wonderful, marvellous; i. e., a.
worthy of pious admiration, admirable, excellent:
1 Peter 2:9 (
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 36, 2 [ET]; for
אַדִּיר,
Psalm 8:2;
Psalm 92:4
