STRONGS G2302:
θέατρον,
-ου,
τό (
θεάομαι);
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 19:29,
31.
2. equivalent to
θεά and
θέαμα,
a public show (Aeschines dial. socr. 3, 20; Achilles Tatius 1, 16, p. 55), and hence, metaphorically,
a man who is exhibited to be gazed at and made sport of:
1 Corinthians 4:9 [A. V. a spectacle].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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Acts
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19:29; 19:31
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1 Corinthians
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4:9