Passionate anger, fury, wrath — the boiling-over of intense emotion. Distinguished from orgē (settled, judicial wrath), thymos is fierce and blazing. In Revelation, it describes God's eschatological fury against unrepentant evil.
While orgē is God's settled opposition to sin, thymos is its fierce expression in judgment. Revelation uses thymos for the wine of God's fury (14:10), the bowls of wrath (16:1), and the wrath of the Lamb (19:15). It is not capricious rage but holy fury against persistent evil. Paul lists thymos among works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20), warning that human fury is destructive — only God's wrath is perfectly just.