STRONGS G2375:
θυρεός,
-οῦ,
ὁ, (from
θύρα, because shaped like a door [cf. Winers Grammar, 23]),
a shield (Latin
scutum); it was large, oblong, and four-cornered:
τὸν θ.
τῆς πίστεως, equivalent to
τὴν πίστιν ὡς θυρεόν,
Ephesians 6:16. It differs from
ἀσπίς (Latin
clipeus), which was smaller and circular. [Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others.]
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