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Strong's #2302: theatron (pronounced theh'-at-ron)

from 2300; a place for public show ("theatre"), i.e. general audience-room; by implication, a show itself (figuratively):--spectacle, theatre.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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theatron

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)

2) a public show

2a) metaphorically, a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G2300

Citing in TDNT: 3:42, 318




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Acts 19:29: "with one accord into the theater."
Acts 19:31: "himself into the theater."
1 Corinthians 4:9: "appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels,"









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