Quick Definition
θέατρον, ου, τό n.n. a theatre, spectacle
Strong's Definition
from 2300; a place for public show ("theatre"), i.e. general audience-room; by implication, a show itself (figuratively)
KJV Usage: spectacle, theatre
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου | θεάομαι
7.54 · Constructions · Open Constructions
theater a rather large, normally semicircular open structure capable of seating several thousand people and often used for public assemblies The emphasis in ACT 19:29 is upon the theater as a place for assembly and not as a place for dramas. In some languages the most appropriate equivalent is actually ‘meeting place.’ In other instances one may use a term which designates an ‘enclosure.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
θέατρον, -ov, τό, (θεάυμαι) ; 1. a theatre, a place in which games and dramatic spectacles are exhibited, and public assemblies held (for the Greeks used the theatre also as a forum): Acts xix. 29, 31. 2. i. q. θέα and θέαμα, a public show (Aeschin. dial. socr. 3, 20; Achill. Tat. 1, 16 p. 55), and hence, metaph., a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of: 1 Co. iv. 9 [A. V. a spectacle ).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
θέατρον theatron 3x
a theater, a place where public games and spectacles are exhibited, Acts 19:29, 31; meton. a show, gazing-stock, 1 Cor. 4:9*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* θέατρον, -ον, τό
(< θεάομαι),
a theatre (used also as a place of assembly): Ac 19:29, 31.
Collective for οἱ θεαταί, the spectators.
= θέα, θέαμα, a spectacle, show: metaph., I Co 4:9.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
θέατρον. The use of the θέατρον as a place for public assemblies, as in Ac 1979, can be readily illustrated from the inscrr., e.g. Brit. Mus. Inscrr. 111. 48155 (A.D. 104) φερέτωσαν . . κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐκκλησίαν els τὸ θέατρον (at Ephesus), Sy// 3144 ἐκκλησία συνήχθη κυρία ἐν [τῶι θεάτρωι (see Preuschen HZNT ad ἴος.). See also the ‘‘ neat confirmation” of Ac 19% 41 in the inscr. cited from Deissmann 2.4.8, p. 114 S.v. ἐκκλησία. Miscellaneous exx. of the word from the papyri are P Flor I. 61% (a.p. 85) (as amended Cérest. 11. p- 59) ἄνθρωπον στα[τέον] els τὰ θέατρα, P Oxy III. 4711 (ii/A.D.) καὶ τὸν οὐκ ἐν λευκαῖς ἐσθῆσιν [ἐὴν θεάτρῳ καθίσαϊίντα] παρέδωκας εἰς θ[ ἀ]νίατον, ‘‘and the man who took his seat at the theatre without wearing white garments you delivered to death ” (Edd.), 76. VI. 93714 (iii/A.D.) mapayγέλλω σοι. . . ἵνα παραβάλῃς πρὸς τῇ πλατείᾳ τοῦ θεάτρου, “1 bid you go to the street of the theatre,” 2ό. VII. ii/iii The adj. occurs in an inser. from the theatre at Ephesus, OG/S 5107 (A.D. 138-61) τὴν λοιπὴν παρασκευὴν τῶν θεατρικῶν. MGr θέατροί(ν).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
θέατρον (theatron) — theatre. θέᾱτρον, Ionic dialect θέητρον, τό, (θεάομαι) place for seeing, especiallyfor dramatic representation, theatre, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a place of assembly, [NT+5th c.BC+]; θ. κυνηγετικόν, of the Roman amphitheatre, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; εἰς τὸ θ. εἰσφέρειν to bring upon the stage, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ καλὸν τοῦ θ. a good place in the theatre, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. collective for οἱ θεαταί, the spectators, 'the house', [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. ={θέαμα}, spectacle, θ. ἐγενήθημεν τῷ κόσμῳ [NT]
4. metaphorically, of life, τουτὶ τὸ θ. ὑπεκρίθημεν [Refs 3rd c.AD+]