θηρεύω
to hunt
‘to hunt’ 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Every verse where G2340 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.
Luke 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 verb θηρευω centers on the idea of “to hunt.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). It occurs only once, in Luke 11:54. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G2340 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
- Luke 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.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Catch 1×
- American Standard Version: Catch 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Catch 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Trap 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2340 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2340 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2340 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2340 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.
- to go a hunting, to hunt, to catch in hunting
- metaph. to lay wait for, strive to ensnare, catch artfully
Word origin
Derived from θηρα (thḗra) (G2339) — hunting.
From G2339 ; to hunt (an animal) that is (figuratively) to carp at : - catch.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2340, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θηρευω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 7 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:3 θηρεύω
- Leviticus 17:13 θηρεύω
- Job 18:7 θηρεύω
- Psalms 58:4 θηρεύω
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 θηρεύω
- Jeremiah 5:6 θηρεύω
- Lamentations 3:52 θηρεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2340) 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 27:3 θηρεύω Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 27:5 θηρεύω Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:33 θηρεύω 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."
- Leviticus 17:13 θηρεύω "'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
- Job 18:7 θηρεύω The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.
- Job 38:39 θηρεύω "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
- Psalms 58:4 θηρεύω Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
- Psalms 93:21 θηρεύω
- Psalms 123:7 θηρεύω
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 θηρεύω For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
- Jeremiah 5:6 θηρεύω Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
- Jeremiah 16:16 θηρεύω Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
- Jeremiah 28:41 θηρεύω
- Lamentations 3:52 θηρεύω They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
- Lamentations 4:18 θηρεύω They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2340) 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.
