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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: θυρεός

(Strong's #2375 — Noun Masculine — thureos — thoo-reh-os' )

formerly meant "a stone for closing the entrance of a cave;" then, "a shield," large and oblong, protecting every part of the soldier; the word is used metaphorically of faith, Ephesians 6:16 , which the believer is to take up "in (en in the original) all" (all that has just been mentioned), i.e., as affecting the whole of his activities.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Shield'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/shield.html. 1940.
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