Lesson 84 Amplified -- TERATA

 TERATA

American plural: wonders, miracles

TERAS

American singular: a wonder, a miracle

Hebrew Aramaic: mowpheth or mopheth 

Only the plural of this Koine Greek word is used in the New Blood Covenant. The first quotation, below, is from the Old Blood Covenant. 

Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions) 

Isaiah 8.18: “Lo! I and the children (whom YHWH has given to Me) are for an owth [semeion, sign, indication] and mopheth in Israel from YHWH of the Hordes of Heaven Who dwells in Mount Zion.”

 

Acts 2.14: But Rock (standing with the eleven) raised up his phonen [sound, tone, noise, voice] and plainly enunciated [declared] to them, “Men! Jews! and all those inhabiting Jerusalem, let this be known to you and take into your ear [listen to] my rhemata [utterances]. For these men aren’t intoxicated as you assume for it is merely the third hour of the day [9 AM]. But this is that even being spoken via the prophetou [before teller, prophet] Joel: ‘And it shall be in the final days,’ says Theos, ‘I will pour forth (from My Pneuma [wind, breath, spirit]) upon all flesh and your sons and daughters propheteusousin [will before tell, will speak under inspiration, will prophesy] and your youths will stare wide-eyed at visions and your elders will dream dreams. And in those days (upon My male slaves and upon My female slaves), I will pour forth from My Pneuma and they also propheteusousi. And I will give terata in the ourano [elevation, the heavens, the sky, aloft] above and semeia [signs, indications] upon the earth below; blood and fire and mist of smoke. The sunshine will be changed to shadowiness [an eclipse] and the moon into blood [an eclipse] prior to the coming of the megalen [big, large, huge, great] and notable Day of the Kuriou. And it shall be that all (whoever epikalesetai [calls out to, appeals to, invokes] the name [authority] of the Kuriou) sothesetai [will be rescued, will be saved].’”

 

JOEL 2.28: “… afterward It will be, I will pour forth My Ruwach [Pneuma] upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will naba [prophetueo]. Your old will dream dreams. Your youths will see visions. And in those days (on both My male slaves and My female slaves), I will pour forth My Ruwach. I will give mopheth in the sky and on the earth, blood and fire and timarah [pillars, columns] of smoke. The sun will be turned over to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of YHWH. For it will be that all who qara [epikalesetai] the name of YHWH will malat [be smooth, be slippery, escape] for in Mount Tsijon [Zion] and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,” as YHWH has said, “and deliverance among the survivors to whom YHWH shall call out.”

 

Acts continues 2.22: “Men! Israelites! hear these logous [words]: Jesus, the Nazarene, is a man from Theos, having been exhibited [accredited] to you by dunamesi [powerful] deeds and terata and semeia, which Theos did, via Him, in your midst, just as you know.

 

Acts 2.43: And fear was caused to be in every psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego] and many terata and semeia were caused to be via the apostolon.

 

Acts 5.12: Now, semeia and terata were caused to be in many people via the hands of the apostolon and they were all homothumadon [unanimous, with one mind] in the Temple’s Porch of Solomon. Now, of the remaining ones, not even one dared to be joined to them, conversely, the people magnified [declared great] them. Now, more were added, throngs both of men and of gunaikon [women], pisteuontes [putting their faith in] the Kurio, such that they carried out the strengthless and placed them upon couches and upon mattresses down the wide plats [places] in order that (while he was coming [passing]) Rock’s shadow might overshadow some of those. Now, also the populaces of the towns all around were assembled in Jerusalem, carrying the strengthless and those being mobbed [harassed] by impure pneumaton, who were all healed.

 

Acts 7.35: “This, the Moses whom they had contradicted (saying, ‘Who set you down a ruler and a judge?’), this Moses Theos has sent (both a ruler and a redeemer) in [by] the hand of the Aggelos [Messenger, Angel] wide-eyed stared at in the desert in the thorn shrub. This one led them forth, doing terata and semeia in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea [Gulf of Aqaba, between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia] and in the wasteland for forty years. This is the Moses saying to the sons of Israel, ‘The Kurios will stand up for you a Propheten, like me, emergent from your brothers. Him you shall hear [heed].’” 

Acts 14: Now, it was caused to be (in Iconium) that down themselves [together] they entered into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke, as before in Antioch, Pisidia and a large throng pisteusai [had faith]; both of the Jews and of the Greeks. But the apiethountes [being without-faith] Jews incited and injured [made wicked] the psuchas of the ethnon [nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] down [against] the brothers. Properly therefore, they spent considerable time there, frankly [boldly] speaking [preaching] on the Kurio, testifying to the logo [word] of His charitos [graciousness] and giving semeia and terata which were caused to be via their hands. But the populace of the city was divided, and some were with the Judaeans, but others were with the apostolois. Now, a violent impulse [riot] was caused to be of the ethnon and (also) of the Judaeans, coming with their chiefs to abuse and to stone them. Having been informed, they fled down to the cities of Lystra and Derbe, in Lycaonia, Asia Minor and the surrounding region and there they euaggelizomenoi [were announcing good news, were evangelizing]. 

End of Eighty-fourth Lesson