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Lexicon :: Strong's G2310 - themelios

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θεμέλιος
Transliteration
themelios (Key)
Pronunciation
them-el'-ee-os
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Part of Speech
noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of τίθημι (G5087)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:63,322

Strong’s Definitions

θεμέλιος themélios, them-el'-ee-os; from a derivative of G5087; something put down, i.e. a substruction (of a building, etc.), (literally or figuratively):—foundation.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G2310 in the following manner: foundation (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G2310 in the following manner: foundation (16x).
  1. laid down as a foundation, the foundation (of a building, wall, city)

  2. metaph. the foundations, beginnings, first principles

    1. of institution or system of truth

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θεμέλιος themélios, them-el'-ee-os; from a derivative of G5087; something put down, i.e. a substruction (of a building, etc.), (literally or figuratively):—foundation.
STRONGS G2310:
θεμέλιος, θεμέλιον (θέμα (i. e. thing laid down)), laid down as a foundation, belonging to a foundation (Diodorus 5, 66; θεμέλιοι λίθοι, Aristophanes av. 1137); generally as a substantive, θεμέλιος (namely, λίθος) (1 Corinthians 3:11; 2 Timothy 2:19; Revelation 21:19), and τό θεμέλιον (rarely so in Greek writings, as (Aristotle, phys. auscult. 2, 9, p. 200a, 4); Pausanias, 8, 32, 1; (others)), the foundation (of a building, wall, city): properly, Luke 6:49; τιθέναι θεμέλιον, Luke 6:48; Luke 14:29; plural οἱ θεμέλιοι (chiefly so in Greek writings), Hebrews 11:10; Revelation 21:14, 19; neuter τό θεμέλια, Acts 16:26 (and often in the Sept.); metaphorically, the foundations, beginnings, first principles, of an institution or system of truth: 1 Corinthians 3:10, 12; the rudiments, first principles, of Christian life and knowledge, Hebrews 6:1 (μετανοίας genitive of apposition (Winer's Grammar, 531 (494))); a course of instruction begun by a teacher, Romans 15:20; Christ is called the θεμέλιος, i. e. faith in him, which is like a foundation laid in the soul on which is built up the fuller and richer knowledge of saving truth, 1 Corinthians 3:11; τῶν ἀποστόλων (genitive of apposition, on account of what follows: ὄντος... Χριστοῦ (others say genitive of origin, see ἐποικοδομέω; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 1; Meyer or Ellicott at the passage)), of the apostles as preachers of salvation, upon which foundation the Christian church has been built, Ephesians 2:20; a solid and stable spiritual possession, on which resting as on a foundation they may strive to lay hold on eternal life, 1 Timothy 6:19; the church is apparently called θεμέλιος as the foundation of the 'city of God,' 2 Timothy 2:19, cf. 2 Timothy 2:20 and 1 Timothy 3:15. (the Sept. several times also for אַרְמון, a palace, Isaiah 25:2; Jeremiah 6:5; Amos 1:4, etc.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
25:2
Jeremiah
6:5
Amos
1:4
Luke
6:48; 6:49; 14:29
Acts
16:26
Romans
15:20
1 Corinthians
3:10; 3:11; 3:11; 3:12
Ephesians
2:20
1 Timothy
3:15; 6:19
2 Timothy
2:19; 2:19; 2:20
Hebrews
6:1; 11:10
Revelation
21:14; 21:19; 21:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2310 matches the Greek θεμέλιος (themelios),
which occurs 43 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:22 -

For a fire is kindled in My anger,

And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol,

And it consumes the earth with its produce,

And it sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:8 -

“Then the earth shook and quaked;

The foundations of heaven were trembling

And were shaken, because He was angry.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:16 -

“Then the channels of the sea appeared,

The foundations of the world were [fn]laid bare

By the rebuke of Yahweh,

At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:1 -

Now it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he [fn]began to build the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 -

All these were of precious stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:18 - And the covered way for the sabbath which they had built in the house, and the outer entry of the king, he removed from the house of Yahweh because of the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 -

let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are rebuilding the rebellious and evil city and are completing the walls and repairing the foundations.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:16 -

‘Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God [fn]in Jerusalem; and from then until now it is being rebuilt, and it is not yet finished.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:6 -

The One who shakes the earth out of its place,

And its pillars tremble;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 -

“O [fn]you who tear yourself in your anger

For your sake is the earth to be forsaken,

Or the rock to be moved from its place?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:16 -

Who were snatched away before their time,

Whose foundations were [fn]washed away by a river?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:7 -

Then the earth shook and quaked;

And the foundations of the mountains were trembling

And were shaken, because He was angry.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:15 -

Then the channels of water appeared,

And the foundations of the world were [fn]laid bare

At Your rebuke, O Yahweh,

At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:5 -

They do not know and do not understand;

They walk about in darkness;

All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:7 -

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom

The day of Jerusalem,

Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down

To its very foundation.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:29 -

When He set for the sea its boundary

So that the water would not pass over His [fn]command,

When He marked out the foundations of the earth;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 -

They are coming from a far country,

From the end of the sky,

Yahweh and His instruments of indignation,

To wreak destruction on the whole land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 -

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the fury of Yahweh of hosts

In the day of His burning anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 -

“Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol,

To the recesses of the pit.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 -

Then it will be that he who flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit,

And he who [fn]climbs out of the pit will be caught in the pitfall;

For the windows [fn]above are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:2 -

For You have made a city into a heap,

A fortified town into a ruin;

A palace of strangers is a city no more,

It will never be rebuilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 -

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,

A costly cornerstone for the foundation, [fn]firmly placed.

He who believes in it will not be [fn]disturbed.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:21 -

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 -

Shout for joy, O heavens, for Yahweh has done it!

Make a loud shout, you lower parts of the earth;

Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,

O forest, and every tree in it;

For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob

And in Israel He shows forth His beautiful glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 -

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,

Behold, I will lay your stones in antimony,

And your foundations I will set in [fn]sapphires.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 -

“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient waste places;

You will raise up the foundations of past generation upon generation;

And you will be called the repairer of the breach,

The restorer of the paths for one to inhabit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:5 -

“Arise, and let us go up by night

And [fn]destroy her [fn]palaces!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 -

“They will not take from you even a stone for a corner

Nor a stone for foundations,

But you will be a perpetual desolation,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:11 -

Kaph

Yahweh has spent His wrath;

He has poured out His burning anger;

And He has kindled a fire in Zion

Which has devoured its foundations.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14 - “So I will pull down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 -

“A sword will come upon Egypt,

And anguish will be in [fn]Ethiopia;

When the slain fall in Egypt,

They take away her multitude,

And her foundations are pulled down.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 -

So Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:4 -

“So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael,

And it will consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:7 -

“So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza,

And it will consume her citadels.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:10 -

“So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre,

And it will consume her citadels.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:12 -

“So I will send fire upon Teman,

And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:14 -

“So I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah,

And it will consume her citadels

Amid a loud shout on the day of battle

And a storm on the day of tempest.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:2 -

“So I will send fire upon Moab,

And it will consume the citadels of Kerioth;

And Moab will die amid great rumbling,

Amid a loud shout and the sound of a trumpet.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:5 -

“So I will send fire upon Judah,

And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:6 -

So I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,

Planting places for a vineyard.

And I will pour her stones down into the valley

And will lay bare her foundations.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:2 -

[fn]Listen, you mountains, to the case of Yahweh,

And you enduring foundations of the earth,

Because Yahweh has a case against His people;

Even with Israel He will reprove.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:10 -

Like tangled thorns,

And like those who are drunken with their drink,

They are consumed

As stubble fully dried up.

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