ἐκθαμβέω
to terrify
‘to terrify’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (50%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1568 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 9:15 ἐξεθαμβήθησαν aor pass ind 3pl Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.
- Mark 14:33 ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι pres pass inf He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- Mark 16:5 ἐξεθαμβήθησαν aor pass ind 3pl Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
- Mark 16:6 ἐκθαμβεῖσθε pres pass impv 2pl He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb εκθαμβεω centers on the idea of “to terrify.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. The word gravitates to Mark (100%). Its earliest occurrence is Mark 9:15. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1568 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Mark 4 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Affrighted 1×, Be 1×, Be sore amazed 1×
- American Standard Version: Amazed 1×, Be 1×, Be greatly amazed 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be alarmed 1×, Be deeply troubled 1×, They were alarmed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be alarmed 1×, Be distressed 1×, Do 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1568 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1568 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1568 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1568 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to throw into terror or amazement
- to be struck with amazement
Word origin
Derived from εκθαμβος (ékthambos) (G1569) — astonished.
From G1569 ; to astonish utterly : - affright greatly (sore) amaze.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1568 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐξεθαμβήθησαν exethambḗthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 9:15 | 2 |
| ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι ekthambeîsthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Mark 14:33 | 1 |
| ἐκθαμβεῖσθε ekthambeîsthe | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Mark 16:6 | 1 |
