θαυμάζω thaumazō

Greek word for “to marvel” · Strong’s G2296 · used 43 times in 43 verses

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Meaning

θαυμάζω; to marvel, wonder, wonder at: absol., 9:33 15:31 21:20 22:22 27:14, 15:5, (R, txt.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for thaumazō in context, with how often each is used:

• marveled 12
• marveling 6
• marvel 2
• amaze 2
• wondering 2
• marveled at 2
• astonished 2
• wondered 1
• having marveled 1
• wondering at 1
• amazement 1
• may do wonder 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 17 (3), Matthew 8 (2), Mark 15 (2), Luke 1 (2), Luke 2 (2), Luke 11 (2), Luke 24 (2), John 5 (2), John 7 (2), Matthew 9 (1)

Forms

• ἐθαύμασαν 8
• ἐθαύμαζον 7
• ἐθαύμασεν 4
• θαυμάζετε 4
• θαυμάζειν 2
• ἐθαύμαζεν 2
• θαυμάζοντες 2
• θαυμαζόντων 2
• θαυμάσαι 1
• θαυμάσαντες 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with thaumazō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 8
• εἴδω eidō “to perceive” 7
• κωφός kōphos “deaf/mute” 3
• Ἰσραήλ Israēl “Israel” 4
• θηρίον thērion “wild animal” 3
• ὄχλος ochlos “crowd” 4
• ἀκούω akouō “to hear” 5
• ἀποκρίνω apokrinō “to answer” 4
• ὥστε hōste “so” 3
• βλέπω blepō “to see” 3
• ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai “to go away” 3
• τοσοῦτος tosoutos “so great” 2

Key verses

The verses using thaumazō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 4:22 — And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
• John 5:20 — For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
• John 5:28 — Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
• Acts 3:12 — And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or…
• Acts 4:13 — Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them,…
• Acts 13:41 — Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
• Galatians 1:6 — I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
• 2 Thessalonians 1:10 — When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
• Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of…
• Revelation 13:3 — And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
• Revelation 17:6 — And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
• Revelation 17:8 — The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.