Quick Definition
show, display, pomp
Strong's Definition
(properly abstract) a (vain) show ("fantasy")
Derivation: from a derivative of G5324 (φαντάζω);
KJV Usage: pomp
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φαντασία, φαντασίας, ἡ, show, showy appearance, display, pomp: Act_25:23. (Polybius 15, 25, 5, etc.; (Diodorus 12, 83); others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φαντασία phantasia 1x
pr. a rendering visible; a display; pomp, parade, Act_25:23
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φαντασία , -ας , ἡ
( < φαντάζω ),
[in LXX : Zec_10:1 ( H2385 ), Hab_2:18-19 ; Hab_3:10 , Wis_18:17 * ;]
1. as philos. term,
(a) imagination;
(b) = φάντασμα ( Plat ., Arist .).
2. In later writers ( Polyb ., al. ), show, display: Act_25:23 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φαντασία [page 664]
For the meaning pomp, dignity, as in Act. 25:23, cf. Vett. Val. p. 38 .26 εὐπόρους δὲ καὶ πλουσίους καὶ μετὰ πλείστης φαντασίας διεξάγοντας , et saepe. The word is used of idols in ib. p. 67 .6 ὑπὸ δαιμονίων καὶ φαντασίας εἰδώλων χρηματισθήσονται . For its philosophic use see Epict. i, I. 15 δῆλον ὅτι ἡ χρηστικὴ δύναμις ταῖς φαντασίαις , clearly it ( sc. reason) is the faculty which can deal with our impressions (Matheson), and for its use by medical writers to denote the appearance or manifestation of disease, see Hoban, p. 265.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
φαντασία [Etym: from φαντάζομαι] φαντα^σία, ἡ, "imagination, the power by which an object is presented" (φαίνεται) "to the mind (the object presented" being φάντασμα), Plat. , Arist.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
φαντασία, -ας, ἡ
(φαντάζω), [in LXX: Zec.10:1 (חֲזִיז), חֲזִיז), Hab.2:18-19 3:10, Wis.18:17 * ;]
__1. as philos. term,
__(a) imagination;
__(b) = φάντασμα (Plat., Arist.).
__2. In later writers (Polyb., al.), show, display: Act.25:23.†
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