◄ 2375. thureos ►
Strong's Lexicon thureos: Shield Original Word: θυρεός Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: thureos Pronunciation: thoo-reh-os' Phonetic Spelling: (thoo-reh-os') Definition: Shield Meaning: the heavy oblong Roman shield. HELPS Word-studies 2375 thyreós – properly, a gate or door (or "door-shaped"); used of the large, oblong ancient Roman shield (which looked like a full door), large enough to provide full protection from attack (used only in Eph 6:16). 2375 /thyreós ("full-body shield") refers to God's inworking of faith – i.e. "the shield (2375 /thyreós) of faith" which protects the whole believer, covering their whole person in spiritual warfare. See 4102 (pistis). The Lord Himself is our shield (Ps 7:10,13; Zech 12:8), providing protection by inbirthing His spoken-word (4487 /rhḗma) of faith in the believer. This always extinguishes (takes the fire out of) the missals of the enemy (cf. Ro 10:17, Gk text). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from thura Definition a shield NASB Translation shield (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2375: θυρεός θυρεός, θυρεοῦ, ὁ (from θύρα, because shaped like a door (cf. Winers Grammar, 23)), a shield (Latinscutum); it was large, oblong, and four-cornered: τόν θυρεόν τῆς πίστεως, equivalent to τήν πίστιν ὡς θυρεόν, Ephesians 6:16. It differs from ἀσπίς (Latinclipeus), which was smaller and circular. (Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance shield. From thura; a large shield (as door-shaped) -- shield. see GREEK thura Forms and Transliterations θυρεοί θυρεοίς θυρεον θυρεόν θυρεὸν θυρεός θυρεού θυρεούς θυρεώ thureon thyreon thyreòn Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Ephesians 6:16 N-AMS GRK: ἀναλαβόντες τὸν θυρεὸν τῆς πίστεως NAS: taking up the shield of faith KJV: taking the shield of faith, INT: having taken up the shield of faith Strong's Greek 2375 1 Occurrence θυρεὸν — 1 Occ.