θήρα
hunting
‘hunting’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2339 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Romans 1 verse
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 noun θηρα centers on the idea of “hunting.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Romans (100%). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Romans 11:9. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2339 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 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: not separately translated
- American Standard Version: Trap 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Trap 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Trap 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Does not render G2339 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2339 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2339 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2339 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- a hunting of wild beasts to destroy them
- metaph. of preparing destruction for men
Word origin
Origin: from ther (a wild animal, as game)
From θήρ thē r (a wild animal as game ); hunting that is (figuratively) destruction : - trap.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2339, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θηρα appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 9 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 25:28 θήρα
- Exodus 22:12 θήρα
- Numbers 23:24 θήρα
- Psalms 16:12 θήρα
- Proverbs 11:8 θήρα
- Isaiah 31:4 θήρα
- Hosea 5:2 θήρα
- Amos 3:4 θήρα
- Nahum 2:13 θήρα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2339) 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.
- Genesis 25:28 θήρα Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:3 θήρα Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 27:5 θήρα Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:7 θήρα 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
- Genesis 27:19 θήρα Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:25 θήρα He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
- Genesis 27:30 θήρα It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 27:31 θήρα He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:33 θήρα Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Exodus 22:12 θήρα But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.
- Numbers 23:24 θήρα Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
- Psalms 16:12 θήρα
- Psalms 34:8 θήρα Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
- Psalms 123:6 θήρα
- Psalms 131:15 θήρα
- Proverbs 11:8 θήρα A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, And the wicked takes his place.
- Proverbs 12:27 θήρα The slothful man doesn't roast his game, But the possessions of diligent men are prized.
- Isaiah 31:4 θήρα For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.
- Hosea 5:2 θήρα The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.
- Hosea 9:13 θήρα Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.
- Amos 3:4 θήρα Will a lion roar in the thicket, When he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, If he has caught nothing?
- Nahum 2:13 θήρα "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
- Nahum 2:14 θήρα
- Nahum 3:1 θήρα Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2339) 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.
