Lexical Summary thēra: a hunting, prey Original Word: θήραTransliteration: thēra Phonetic Spelling: (thay'-rah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a hunting, prey Meaning: a hunting, prey Strong's Concordance trap. From ther (a wild animal, as game); hunting, i.e. (figuratively) destruction -- trap. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2339: θήραθήρα (Latinfera; perhaps from root to run, spring, prey, Vanicek, p. 415; cf. Curtius, § 314), θήρας, ἡ; from Homer down; a hunting of wild beasts to destroy them; hence, figuratively, of preparing destruction for men (A. V. a trap), Romans 11:9, on which cf. Fritzsche. |
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