θυρεός
shield
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
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2375 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.
Ephesians 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.
“shield” is the headline sense of the Greek noun θυρεος (thyreós). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. It clusters heavily in Ephesians, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Ephesians 6:16. It clusters with θυρα, θυρις and θυρωρος under a shared root. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2375 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
- Ephesians 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: Shield 1×
- American Standard Version: Up the shield 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shield 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shield 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- a shield, a large oblong, four cornered shield
Word origin
Derived from θυρα (thýra) (G2374) — door.
From G2374 ; a large shield (as door shaped): - shield.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2375, 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 θυρεος appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 10 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 5:8 θυρεός
- 2 Samuel 1:21 θυρεός
- 2 Kings 19:32 θυρεός
- 1 Chronicles 12:9 θυρεός
- 2 Chronicles 9:15 θυρεός
- Ezra 14:10 θυρεός
- Psalms 34:2 θυρεός
- Song of Solomon 4:4 θυρεός
- Isaiah 21:5 θυρέος
- Ezekiel 23:24 θυρέος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2375) 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.
- Judges 5:8 θυρεός They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?
- 2 Samuel 1:21 θυρεός You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
- 2 Kings 19:32 θυρεός Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
- 1 Chronicles 12:9 θυρεός Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
- 1 Chronicles 12:35 θυρεός Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 9:15 θυρεός King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler.
- 2 Chronicles 11:12 θυρεός In every city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
- 2 Chronicles 12:9 θυρεός So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
- 2 Chronicles 12:10 θυρεός King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 θυρεός For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 23:9 θυρεός Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 25:5 θυρεός Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.
- 2 Chronicles 26:14 θυρεός Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
- Ezra 14:10 θυρεός
- Psalms 34:2 θυρεός My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
- Psalms 45:10 θυρεός Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
- Song of Solomon 4:4 θυρεός Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand shields, All the shields of the mighty men.
- Isaiah 21:5 θυρέος They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.
- Isaiah 37:33 θυρεός Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
- Ezekiel 23:24 θυρέος They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2375) 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.
