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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - θυμός
θυμός
G2372
Transliteration: thymós
Pronunciation: thoo-mos'
Definition: fierceness
- Original: θυμός - Transliteration: Thumos - Phonetic: thoo-mos'
- Definition:
1. passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again
2. glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)
- Origin: from G2380" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2380 - TDNT entry: 05:47,3 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From G2380" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2380; passion (as if breathing hard): - fierceness indignation wrath. Compare G5590" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5590.