Lexical Summary theatron: a theater, a spectacle Original Word: θέατρονTransliteration: theatron Phonetic Spelling: (theh'-at-ron) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a theater, a spectacle Meaning: a theater, a spectacle Strong's Concordance spectacle, theatre. From theaomai; a place for public show ("theatre"), i.e. General audience-room; by implication, a show itself (figuratively) -- spectacle, theatre. see GREEK theaomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2302: θέατρονθέατρον, θεατρου, τό (θεάομαι); 1. a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are exhibited, and public assemblies held (for the Greeks used the theatre also as a forum): Acts 19:29, 31. 2. equivalent to θεά and θέαμα, a public show (Aeschines dial. socr. 3, 20; Achilles Tatius 1, 16, p. 55), and hence, metaphorically, a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of: 1 Corinthians 4:9 (A. V. a spectacle). |
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