θυμός
anger
‘anger’ 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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2372 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 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.
Ephesians
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 θυμος centers on the idea of “anger.” Revelation dominates its distribution — 10 of 18 verses. Spanning 18 verses in 9 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Luke 4:28, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Dig into 18-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2372 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 10 verses 56%
- Luke 1 verse 6%
- Acts 1 verse 6%
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 18 distinct verses.
- Johannine 10 verses · 56%
- Revelation 10 verses · 56%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 28%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 11%
- Gospels 1 verse · 6%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 6%
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: Wrath 14×, Fierceness 2×
- American Standard Version: Wrath 13×, Wraths 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rage 4×, Wrath 4×, Anger 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wrath 8×, Anger 4×, Passion 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2372 across 18 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 G2372 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2372 across 17 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2372 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again
- glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)
Word origin
Derived from θυω (thýō) (G2380) — to sacrifice.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2372 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θυμοῦ thymoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 4:28 | 10 |
| θυμοί thymoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 12:20 | 2 |
| θυμὸν thymòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 11:27 | 2 |
| θυμὸς thymòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Ephesians 4:31 | 2 |
| θυμόν thymón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Colossians 3:8 | 1 |
| θυμός thymós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 2:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2372, 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
- θυελλα thýella G2366 tempest
- θυινος thýïnos G2367 citrus tree
- θυμιαω thymiáō G2370 to burn incense
- θυσια thysía G2378 sacrifice
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θυμος appears 249 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 235 verses in 30 books.
- 249
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 235
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:44 θυμός
- Exodus 11:8 θυμός
- Leviticus 10:6 θυμός
- Numbers 12:9 θυμός
- Deuteronomy 7:4 θυμός
- Joshua 7:26 θυμός
- Judges 2:14 θυμός
- 1 Samuel 20:34 θυμός
- 2 Samuel 11:20 θυμός
- 2 Kings 5:12 θυμός
- 2 Chronicles 12:7 θυμός
- Ezra 8:22 θυμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2372) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 235. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 27:44 θυμός Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;
- Genesis 49:6 θυμός My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox.
- Genesis 49:7 θυμός Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel.
- Exodus 11:8 θυμός All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
- Exodus 15:8 θυμός With the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Exodus 22:23 θυμός If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
- Exodus 32:12 θυμός Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
- Exodus 32:19 θυμός It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
- Leviticus 10:6 θυμός Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
- Leviticus 26:24 θυμός then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:28 θυμός then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:41 θυμός I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
- Numbers 12:9 θυμός The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
- Numbers 14:34 θυμός After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
- Numbers 18:5 θυμός You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
- Numbers 22:22 θυμός God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- Numbers 25:3 θυμός Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.
- Numbers 25:4 θυμός Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.
- Numbers 25:11 θυμός Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Numbers 32:10 θυμός Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
- Numbers 32:13 θυμός Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
- Numbers 32:14 θυμός Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
- Deuteronomy 7:4 θυμός For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
- Deuteronomy 9:19 θυμός For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
- Deuteronomy 13:18 θυμός when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 θυμός The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
- Deuteronomy 29:23 θυμός [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Deuteronomy 29:26 θυμός and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
- Deuteronomy 29:27 θυμός therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
- Deuteronomy 31:17 θυμός Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
- Deuteronomy 32:22 θυμός For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 θυμός [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
- Deuteronomy 32:33 θυμός Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
- Joshua 7:26 θυμός They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
- Judges 2:14 θυμός The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
- Judges 2:20 θυμός The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
- Judges 3:8 θυμός Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
- Judges 6:39 θυμός Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 9:30 θυμός When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
- Judges 10:7 θυμός The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
- Judges 14:19 θυμός The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
- 1 Samuel 20:34 θυμός So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
- 1 Samuel 28:18 θυμός Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day.
- 2 Samuel 11:20 θυμός it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he tells you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
- 2 Samuel 22:16 θυμός Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
- 2 Kings 5:12 θυμός Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
- 2 Kings 13:3 θυμός The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, continually.
- 2 Kings 19:27 θυμός But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.
- 2 Kings 22:17 θυμός Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
- 2 Kings 23:26 θυμός Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2372) 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.
