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Lexicon :: Strong's G2340 - thēreuō

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θηρεύω
Transliteration
thēreuō (Key)
Pronunciation
thay-ryoo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Strong’s Definitions

θηρεύω thēreúō, thay-ryoo'-o; from G2339; to hunt (an animal), i.e. (figuratively) to carp at:—catch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2340 in the following manner: catch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2340 in the following manner: catch (1x).

  1. to go a hunting, to hunt, to catch in hunting

  2. metaph. to lay wait for, strive to ensnare, catch artfully

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θηρεύω thēreúō, thay-ryoo'-o; from G2339; to hunt (an animal), i.e. (figuratively) to carp at:—catch.
STRONGS G2340:
θηρεύω: 1 aorist infinitive θηρεῦσαι; (from θήρα, as ἀγρεύω from ἄγρα [cf. Schmidt, chapter 72, 3]); from Homer down; to go a hunting, to hunt, to catch in hunting; metaphorically, to lay wait for, strive to ensnare; to catch artfully: τὶ ἐκ στόματός τινος, Luke 11:54.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
11:54

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2340 matches the Greek θηρεύω (thēreuō),
which occurs 17 times in 15 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:3 - “So now, please take up your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:5 -

Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. Then Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Then Isaac [fn]trembled exceedingly violently and said, “Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came and blessed him? Indeed, he shall be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:13 - “So any man from the sons of Israel, or from the sojourners who sojourn among them, who in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7 -

“His [fn]vigorous stride is shortened,

And his own counsel brings him down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 -

“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,

Or fulfill the appetite of the young lions,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:3 -

For behold, they have lain in wait for my soul;

[fn]Fierce men [fn]launch an attack against me,

Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Yahweh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:21 -

They band themselves together against the [fn]life of the righteous

And condemn [fn]the innocent to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 -

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;

The snare is broken and we have escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish seized in an evil net and birds seized in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down;

A wolf of the deserts will devastate them;

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces

Because their transgressions are many;

Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.

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“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares Yahweh, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the crevices of the rocks.

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“How [fn]Sheshak has been captured,

And the praise of the whole earth been seized!

How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 -

Tsadhe

My enemies without cause

Hunted me down like a bird;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 -

Tsadhe

They hunted our steps

So that we could not walk in our open squares;

Our end drew near,

Our days were [fn]finished,

For our end had come.

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