“It is not. Your thesis is so juvenile that it does not even deserve a nod.”
Really? I suppose that Thayer and Strong probably knew and more importantly, understood Greek better than, say, the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council or perhaps those at the Council of Ephesus or those bishops who set up the bible you folks love to quote and undoubtedly better than those of us whose people have been speaking Greek for at least 3000 years and worshiping our Triune God in virtually the exact same way for 1700 years. What would we know? I always forget how very superior, how chosen by God you Anglophone Westerners and your Germanic tongue really are! I’m so sorry!
I don’t see the ECFs or those councils appeal to the original languages that often. Nor do I see catholicism.
The Bible says today what it said when it was written. There is no--repeat NO--word given in the Bible for "venerating" or worshipping any being but the Almighty God and His Equally Divine Son and Lamb, Jesus.
Clearly, your religionists' revisionist works created this attitude toward Mary out of the whole cloth. In marketing we used to call such terms "weasel words" -- persuasive words which the seller describes the product to be but doesn't clue you in as to what it really isn't. "Venerate" without bowing or kneeling in homage to something and not worship? Hah!
Take your Anglophone and call one of your phony friends on this.