thymos · wrath, rage

What it means

thymos (θυμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wrath, rage”.

Rage, wrath: anger that bursts out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An outburst of temper, of people or of God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fury ×11
• rage ×4
• anger ×2
• wrath ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×10

• Luke 4:28

  And all in the synagogue were filled with rage when they heard these things;

• Acts 19:28

  And when they heard this and became full of rage, they were crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

• Romans 2:8

  but to those who are of rivalry and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and I may be found by you such as you do not wish; that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, rivalries, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disorders;

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of rage, rivalries, divisions, factions,

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness and rage and wrath and shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.

• Colossians 3:8

  But now you also put away all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, obscene talk from your mouth.

• Hebrews 11:27

  By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he held firm as seeing the one who is invisible.

• Revelation 12:12

  Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, because the Devil has come down to you with great fury, knowing that he has little time.”

• Revelation 14:8

  And another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 14:10

  he too will drink of the wine of the fury of God, which is mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur before holy angels and before the Lamb.

• Revelation 14:19

  And the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the fury of God.

• Revelation 15:1

  And I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing: seven angels having seven plagues, the last ones, because with them the fury of God is completed.

• Revelation 15:7

  And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives to the ages of the ages.

• Revelation 16:1

  And I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the fury of God on the earth.”

• Revelation 16:19

  And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, so that he would give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

• Revelation 18:3

  because all the nations have fallen from the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the power of her luxury.”

• Revelation 19:15

  And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it he may strike the nations; and he will shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the winepress of the wine of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.