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| The Greek '' 'θηριον' '' ( '' therion '') means a murderous, ravening man-eater, of the sort often released into a Roman arena, like the Colosseum, to eat up a prisoner or to fight against a gladiator.
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| The Greek '' 'θηριον' '' ( '' therion '') means a murderous, ravening man-eater, of the sort often released into a Roman arena, like the Colosseum, to eat up a prisoner or to fight against a gladiator.
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Some nice recent blog reviews, from mordicai magog, to caeli therion, and Everything2.com.
botanical updatery jlundberg 2008
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[6] It is hard to translate the alliterative jingle of Aristotle's saying (Politics 1253a29) that outside the polis one is either degraded or divine, therion or theos, where therion means a (subhuman) animal.
Scandal Wills, Garry 2002
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Another Greek word is _therion_, which means wild beast.
The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker
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"Then bronto -- bronto -- therion must mean -- thunder beast!" cried Dick, rather proud that he had thus pieced together some information.
The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker
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This, is (...) (therion), a wild beast, or a beast of prey.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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The correspondence of syllables and accents in Greek is striking; "He porne kai to therion; He numphe kai to arnion."
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Another object of the form Greek, "arnion," the Lamb, is to put Him in the more marked contrast to Greek, "therion," the Beast.
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