θαυμαστός
marvelous
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2298 appears in the Book of Mark — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
θαυμαστος (thaumastós) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “marvelous.” Translators differ — “marvellous” in the King James Version, then “marvelous” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 6 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Revelation, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It first appears in Matthew 21:42. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2298 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 33%
- Matthew 1 verse 17%
- Mark 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Johannine 3 verses · 50%
- Revelation 2 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
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: Marvellous 5×
- American Standard Version: Marvellous 4×, Marvel 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Marvelous 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Marvelous 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2298 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2298 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2298 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2298 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- wonderful, marvellous
Word origin
Derived from θαυμαζω (thaumázō) (G2296) — to marvel.
From G2296 ; wondered at that is (by implication) wonderful : - marvel (-lous).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2298 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θαυμαστόν thaumastón | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 15:1 | 2 |
| θαυμαστὴ thaumastḕ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 21:42 | 2 |
| θαυμαστὰ thaumastà | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Revelation 15:3 | 1 |
| θαυμαστὸν thaumastòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Peter 2:9 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θαυμαστος appears 22 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 11 books.
- 22
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 15:11 θαυμαστός
- Deuteronomy 28:58 θαυμαστός
- Joshua 3:5 θαυμαστός
- Judges 13:18 θαυμαστός
- Job 42:3 θαυμαστός
- Psalms 8:2 θαυμαστός
- Proverbs 6:30 θαυμαστός
- Isaiah 3:3 θαυμαστός
- Daniel 12:6 θαυμαστός
- Amos 3:9 θαυμαστός
- Micah 7:15 θαυμαστός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2298) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 15:11 θαυμαστός Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Exodus 34:10 θαυμαστός He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 θαυμαστός If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
- Deuteronomy 28:59 θαυμαστός then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Joshua 3:5 θαυμαστός Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.
- Judges 13:18 θαυμαστός The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
- Job 42:3 θαυμαστός You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
- Psalms 8:2 θαυμαστός From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
- Psalms 8:10 θαυμαστός
- Psalms 41:5 θαυμαστός My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"
- Psalms 64:5 θαυμαστός They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
- Psalms 67:36 θαυμαστός
- Psalms 92:4 θαυμαστός For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
- Psalms 105:22 θαυμαστός To discipline his princes at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom.
- Psalms 117:23 θαυμαστός
- Proverbs 6:30 θαυμαστός Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
- Isaiah 3:3 θαυμαστός The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter.
- Isaiah 25:1 θαυμαστός Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
- Daniel 12:6 θαυμαστός One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
- Amos 3:9 θαυμαστός Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, And see what unrest is in her, And what oppression is among them."
- Micah 7:15 θαυμαστός "As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2298) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
