Marvel; Marvelous mar'-vel, mar'-vel-us (tamah, pala'; thaumazo, thaumastos): "To marvel" is the translation of tamah, "to wonder" (Genesis 43:33, Psalms 48:5, the Revised Version (British and American) "were amazed"; Ecclesiastes 5:8); of thaumazo, "to admire," "wonder" (Matthew 8:10, Matthew 8:27, Mark 5:20, John 3:7, Acts 2:7, Revelation 17:7 the King James Version, etc.); "marvel" (substantive) occurs in the plural as translation of pala', "to distinguish," figuratively, "to make wonderful" (Exodus 34:10, "I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought" (the Revised Version margin "created")); and of thaumastos (thauma) (2 Corinthians 11:14).
"Marvelous" is the translation of pala', "marvelous works" (1 Chronicles 16:12, 1 Chronicles 16:24, Psalms 9:1); "marvelous things" (Job 5:9, Job 10:16, Psalms 31:21, Psalms 118:23, Isaiah 29:14, Daniel 11:36, Zechariah 8:6, bis); "marvellously," pala' (Job 37:5, Habakkuk 1:5 twice (tamah), "regard and wonder marvelously," literally, "marvel marvelously"); thaumastos, "admirable," "wonderful," is translated "marvelous" (Matthew 21:42, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 15:1, Revelation 15:3, etc.).
In Apocrypha we have "marvel" (Ecclesiastes 11:13, Ecclesiastes 47:17, 2Macc 1:22, 7:12;); "marvelleth" (Ecclesiastes 40:7, Ecclesiastes 43:18;); "marvellous" (The Wisdom of Solomon 10:17, 19:8, etc., mostly thaumazo and compounds).
The Revised Version (British and American) has "wonder" for "marvel" (Revelation 17:7)' "the marvel" for a "marvellous thing" (John 9:30); "marvelled" for "wondered" (Luke 8:25, Luke 11:14); "marvelled at" for "admired" (2 Thessalonians 1:10); "marveling" for "wondered" (Luke 9:43); "marvellous" for "wondrous" (1 Chronicles 16:9, Psalms 105:2); "marvellous things" for "and wonders" (Job 9:10); "wonderful" for "marvellous" (Psalms 139:14); for "marvelled" (Matthew 9:8), "were afraid," and (Mark 12:17) "marvelled greatly" (different texts).
W. L. Walker