τέρας
miracle
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G5059 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 2:43 τέρατα n nom pl neut Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
- Acts 4:30 τέρατα n nom pl neut while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
- Acts 5:12 τέρατα n nom pl neut By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
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.
“miracle” is the headline sense of the Greek noun τερας (téras). It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 56% of its uses. With 16 verses in 8 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Matthew 24:24, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5059 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
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 16 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 56%
- Gospels 3 verses · 19%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 19%
- Johannine 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: Wonders 16×
- American Standard Version: Wonders 16×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wonders 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wonders 16×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5059 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5059 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5059 across 16 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5059 across 16 tagged occurrences — 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 prodigy, portent
- miracle: performed by any one
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; a prodigy or omen : - wonder.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5059 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τέρατα térata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 24:24 | 11 |
| τέρασιν térasin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 12:12 | 3 |
| τέρασι térasi | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 2:22 | 1 |
| τεράτων terátōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Romans 15:19 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τερας appears 38 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 38 verses in 11 books.
- 38
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 38
- 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 4:21 τέρας
- Deuteronomy 4:34 τέρας
- 1 Kings 13:3 τέρας
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 τέρας
- 2 Chronicles 32:31 τέρας
- Psalms 45:9 τέρας
- Isaiah 8:18 τέρας
- Jeremiah 39:20 τέρας
- Ezekiel 12:6 τέρας
- Daniel 4:29 τέρας
- Joel 3:3 τέρας
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5059) 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 4:21 τέρας Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
- Exodus 7:3 τέρας I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:9 τέρας "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
- Exodus 11:9 τέρας Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 11:10 τέρας Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Exodus 15:11 τέρας Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Deuteronomy 4:34 τέρας Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 6:22 τέρας and Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
- Deuteronomy 7:19 τέρας the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 11:3 τέρας and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 13:2 τέρας and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
- Deuteronomy 13:3 τέρας you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 26:8 τέρας and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
- Deuteronomy 28:46 τέρας and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
- Deuteronomy 29:2 τέρας Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 34:11 τέρας in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
- 1 Kings 13:3 τέρας He gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be torn, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.
- 1 Kings 13:5 τέρας The altar also was torn, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 τέρας Remember his marvelous works that he has done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- 2 Chronicles 32:31 τέρας However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
- Psalms 45:9 τέρας Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- Psalms 70:7 τέρας
- Psalms 77:43 τέρας
- Psalms 104:5 τέρας He laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved forever.
- Psalms 104:27 τέρας These all wait for you, That you may give them their food in due season.
- Psalms 134:9 τέρας
- Isaiah 8:18 τέρας Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 20:3 τέρας Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
- Isaiah 24:16 τέρας From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
- Isaiah 28:29 τέρας This also comes forth from Yahweh of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
- Jeremiah 39:20 τέρας
- Jeremiah 39:21 τέρας
- Ezekiel 12:6 τέρας In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 12:11 τέρας Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.
- Ezekiel 24:24 τέρας Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 24:27 τέρας In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Daniel 4:29 τέρας At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Joel 3:3 τέρας And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5059) 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.
