θέᾱτρον,
Ion. θέητρον, τό, (θεάομαι)
1. place for seeing, esp. for dramatic representation, theatre, Hdt. 6.67, IG 22.1176, al.; as a place of assembly, Th. 8.93, Lys. 13.32, SIG 976.4 (Samos, ii B.C.), Posidon. 36 J., [Act 19:20], etc.; θ. κυνηγετικόν, of the Roman amphitheatre, D.C. 43.22; εἰς τὸ θ. εἰσφέρειν to bring upon the stage, Isoc. 12.122; τὸ καλὸν τοῦ θ. a good place in the theatre, Ael. VH 2.13, cf. Alciphr. 3.20.
2. collective for οἱ θεαταί, the spectators, ’the house ’, Hdt. 6.21, Ar. Eq. 233, al., Pl. Smp. 194b, Com.Adesp. 3D.: metaph., ἐκάθηντο θέατρον αὐτῷ Lib. 722.4.
3. = θέαμα, spectacle, θ. ἐγενήθημεν τῷ κόσμῳ [1Co 4:9].
4. metaph., of life, τουτὶ τὸ θ. ὑπεκρίθημεν Porph. [Mar 2:1-28].
θέατρον theatron 3x
a theater, a place where public games and spectacles are exhibited, [Act 19:29]; [Act 19:31]; meton. a show, gazing-stock, [1Co 4:9]
G2302 — θέατρον
θεατρου, 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): [Act 19:29], [Act 19:31].
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: [1Co 4:9] (A. V. a spectacle).
* θέατρον , - ον , τό
( < θεάομαι ),
1. a theatre (used also as a place of assembly): [Act 19:29]; [Act 19:31].
2. Collective for οἱ θεαταί , the spectators.
3. = θέα , θέαμα , a spectacle, show: metaph ., [1Co 4:9]. †