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G1790 ἔντρομος (éntromos)
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ἔντρομος, ον Adj trembling through fear

Strong's Definition

from 1722 and 5156; terrified

KJV Usage: X quake, X trembled

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | -ον | τρέμω

16.6 · Non-Linear Movement

trembling, quivering, shaking shaking or trembling, often with the implication of fear and/or consternation In a number of languages there are two distinct terms for trembling, one relating to illness (as in the case of epileptic seizures or the chills and fever associated with malaria) and the other associated with fear.

ACT 7:32

25.261 · Attitudes and Emotions · Fear, Terror, Alarm

trembling with fear, extremely fearful pertaining to extreme terror or fear, often accompanied by trembling In HEB 12:21 the meanings of ἔκφοβος (25.256) and ἔντρομος serve to reinforce each other.

ACT 16:29 · HEB 12:21

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἔν-τρομος, -ov, (τρόμος. cf. ἔμφοβος). trembling, terrified : Acts vii. 32 and xvi. 29 ἔντρ. γενόμενος, becoming tremulous, made to tremble; Heb. xii. 21 [Tr mrg. WH mrg. ἔκτρομος; q. v-]. (Sept.; 1 Mace. xiii. 2; Plut. Fab. 3.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἔντρομος entromos 3x

trembling, terrified, Acts 7:32; 16:29; Heb. 12:21*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

† ἔν-τρομος, -ον

[in LXX: Da TH 10:11 (רָעַד hi.); ἔ. γίγνεσθαι, Ps 17 (18):7 76 (77):18 (רַעַשׁ), Wi 17:10, I Mac 13:2 * ;]

trembling with fear (Pint.): Ac 7:32 16:29, He 12:21 (ἔκτρ-, WH, mg.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἔντρομος. For ἔντρομος fev in the NT cf. ἔκτρομος, not found in the lexicons, but apparently used in the same sense in the great Paris magical papyrus of about A.D. 300— 9°78 ὁρκίζω ce... τὸν ἐφορῶντα ἐπὶ γῆς kal ποιοῦντα ἔκτρομα τὰ θεμίλια αὐτῆς, ‘‘and maketh tremble the foundations thereof”: see Heb 12% ND,, and cf. Deissmann LAZ p. 254 and BS p- 290.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἔντρομος (entromos) — trembling. ἔντρομος, ον, trembling, [NT+1st c.BC+]

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