Strong G4591σημαίνω
to signify
- Transliteration
- sēmainō
- Pronunciation
- say-mah'ee-no
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From σῆμα sēma (a mark; of uncertain derivation); to indicate: - signify.
Detailed definition
σημαίνω
(σῆμα, a sign), [in LXX for רוּעַ hi., תָּקַע, etc.;]
to give a sign, signify, indicate: with accusative of thing(s), Act.25:27, Rev.1:1 (cf. MM, xxii); with accusative and inf., Act.11:28; before quæst. indir., Jhn.12:33 18:32 21:19.†
(AS)
(σῆμα, a sign), [in LXX for רוּעַ hi., תָּקַע, etc.;]
to give a sign, signify, indicate: with accusative of thing(s), Act.25:27, Rev.1:1 (cf. MM, xxii); with accusative and inf., Act.11:28; before quæst. indir., Jhn.12:33 18:32 21:19.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4591 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- signify6
- he1
First verses
- John 12:33This he said, signifying what death he should die.
- John 18:32That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.
- John 21:19This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
- Acts 11:28And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.
- Acts 25:27For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
- Revelation 1:1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
σημαίνω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.58, etc.)]; σᾱμαίνω, [Refs (“Schwyzer” 686.23 (from Pamphylia))]: Ionic dialect imperfect σημαίνεσκον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.193)]: future σημᾰνῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 497, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.20)], Ionic dialect -ᾰνέω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.26, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75:)]aorist ἐσήμηνα[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 43, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.71)], Epic dialect σήμηνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.358)]; but in codices of [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus (“HG” 1.1.2, +others) and later writers (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.3.6, NT.Act.25.27, 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 1.41.3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.2) ἐσήμᾱνα, and so in Mitteis “Chr.” 29.8 (2nd c.BC))]: perfect σεσήμαγκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristobulus Historicus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 13.12, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.26.29:)] —middle, future σημᾰνοῦμαι, Ionic dialect -έομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 3, etc.)]: aorist ἐσημηνάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.175, etc.)]:—passive, future σημανθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.267, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1593)]: future middle in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 44)]: aorist ἐσημάνθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.16)]: perfect σεσήμασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954a, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. singular σεσήμανται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125)], infinitive σεσημάνθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1196)]: (σῆμα):—show by a sign, indicate, point out, τέρματα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.358; δείξω ὁδὸν ἠδὲ ἕκαστα σημανέω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.26)]; τοῦτον σημήνας after indicating the person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5; τέκμαρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 667; θησαύρισμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 37; σ. τι περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 682a; σ. ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 12)]; σ. εὔδια πάντα (i.e. εἶναι) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.22:)] —middle, πάντα σημαίνει you have all things shown you (?), [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 1039.11 (from Limyra).)]
2 absolutely, give signs, φθόγγος, φῶς σ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 245, “Ag.” 293; ὁ λόγος σημαινέτω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 345)]; σ. καπνῷ make signal, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 497: frequently in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] in future with αὐτός, πλοῦς αὐτὸς σημανεῖ [Refs (“Hel.” 151; τὸ δ᾽ ἔργον αὐτὸ σημανεῖ “Andr.” 265)]; αὐτὸ σημανεῖ (without substantive) [Refs (“Ph.” 623; τἄλλα δ᾽ αὐτὸ σημανεῖ “Ba.” 976.)]
3 of the Delphic oracle, οὔτε λέγει οὔτε κρύπτει ἀλλὰ σημαίνει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 93)]; so of omens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.2, etc.; σ. ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς [prev. author] “An.” 6.1.31; περί τινος [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.1.19; ἐπὶ τοῖς μέλλουσι γενήσεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8; πρὸ τῶν μελλόντων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.17)]:—passive, σημαίνεσθαι διὰ τῶν ἐμπύρων [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.222f, etc.)]
4 in later Prose intransitive, appear, be manifest, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 533a11)] (but passive in same sense,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 588b18); σ. ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 989a; compare δηλόω 11.)]
4.b σημαίνει impersonal, signs appear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 941b2, 944a4.)]
II give a sign or signal to do a thing, or bid one do it, with dative person et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116, 6.78, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 26, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 688, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.24)]; give orders to, bear command over, with dative, πᾶσι δὲ σημαίνειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.289, compare 10.58, 17.250)]; with genitive, στρατοῦ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.85; also σ. ἐπὶ δμῳῇσι γυναιξίν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.427)]: absolutely, give orders, ὁ δὲ σημαίνων ἐπέτελλεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.445, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.450: in)]participle, σημαίνων,= σημάντωρ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 704 codices)]
II.2 in war or battle, give the signal of attack, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84, etc.; in full, σ. τῇ σάλπιγγι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.1, 5th c.BC: Achaeus Tragicus 37.3; σ. τῷ κέρατι ὡς ἀναπαύεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.4: with _accusative_, σ. ἀναχώρησιν)] give a signal for retreat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10; ἐπειδὰν ὁ σαλπιγκτὴς σημήνῃ τὸ πολεμικόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.29, compare 4.3.32; τὸ ἀνακλητικόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.236e)]: with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.18, etc.: _impersonal_ σημαίνει (i.e. ὁ σαλπιγκτής))], signal is given, as τοῖσι Ἕλλησι ὡς ἐσήμηνε when signal was given for the Greeks to attack, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.11: with)]infinitive, ἐσήμαινε παραρτέεσθαι πάντα signal was given to make all ready, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 9.42, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 830)]; also σ. ἐπὶ πλόον πῦρ gives the signal for sailing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 145.)]
II.3 generally, σ. [τῷ ἵππῳ] τι, προχωρεῖν σ. τῷ ἵππῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.4, 7.10.)]
II.4 make signals, εἰς τὴν πόλιν [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 6.2.33; σ. ὡς πολεμίων ἐπιόντων [prev. work] 7.2.5:)] —passive, ἐσημάνθησαν προσπλέουσαι[Refs ([prev. work] 6.2.34: _absolutely_, σημανθέντων τῷ Ἀστυάγει ὅτι.. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.4.18.)]
III signify, indicate, declare, φόνον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1218; τινί τι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.18, 9.49, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 226: followed by ὡς.., 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.34)]; by ὅτι.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 320, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 62c; σ. ὅστις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 618; σ. ὅ τι χρή σοι συμπράσσειν [prev. work] 297 (_anapaest meter_); σ. ὅπῃ γῆς πεπλάνημαι [prev. work] 564 (_anapaest meter_))]; σ. ὅπου.. [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1294; σ. ὅτου τ᾽ εἶ χὠπόθεν [prev. author] “fragment” 104; σ. εἴτε.. [prev. author] “Ph.” 22; σ. ποίῳ θανάτῳ.. NT.John.12.33, 21.19)]: with participle, signify that a thing is, φρυκτοῦ φῶς.. σημαίνει μολόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 293; Κρέοντα προσστείχοντα σημαίνουσί μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 79, compare “OC” 1669; ταῦτα ὡς πολέμου ὄντος σημαίνει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 626e, compare 722e:)] —passive, ὁ σημαινόμενος δοῦλος the abovementioned slave, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 283.12 (1st c.AD): _absolutely_, σημανθέντος)]it having been reported, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (PAmh. 2.31.8 (2nd c.BC), compare above 11.4.)]
III.2 interpret, explain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108)]; tell, speak, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.106: _absolutely_, σήμαινε)] tell, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 51, compare “OT” 1050; οὐ στηλῶν μόνον σ. ἐπιγραφή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43.)]
III.3 of a writer, signify, indicate, ὅτι.. [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.5)]; of words, sentences, etc., signify, mean, ταὐτὸν σημαίνει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 393a, compare 437c, “Phdr.” 275d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 213b30, etc.)]; σημαίνοντα significant sounds, opposed to ἄσημα, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1457a32f:)] —passive, τὸ σημαινόμενον the sense, meaning of words, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1405b8, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 31, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 12.27, +others)]; opposed to τὸ σημαῖνον, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.38 (_plural_).)]
B middle σημαίνομαι, give oneself a token, i.e. conclude from signs, conjecture, τὰ μὲν σημαίνομαι, τὰ δ᾽ ἐκπέπληγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 32)]; ἄστροις σ. [τὰς πόλεις], proverbial in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.48; σ. τι ἔκ τινος [prev. work] 2.7)]; of dogs hunting, μυξωτῆρσι σ. τι [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.454.)]
B.II provide with a sign or mark, seal, σημαίνεσθαι βύβλῳ (i.e. βοῦν), i.e. by sealing a strip of byblus round his horn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.17, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.1, 2, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 8:)] —passive, εὖ σεσημάνθαι to be well sealed up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1196)]; τὰ σεσημασμένα, opposed to τὰ ἀσήμαντα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954a, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.7, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.17, “Ath.Mitt.” 7.368.)]
B.II.2 mark out, choose for oneself, τοὺς εὐρωστοτάτους [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.71.7.)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.58, etc.)]; σᾱμαίνω, [Refs (“Schwyzer” 686.23 (from Pamphylia))]: Ionic dialect imperfect σημαίνεσκον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.193)]: future σημᾰνῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 497, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.20)], Ionic dialect -ᾰνέω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.26, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75:)]aorist ἐσήμηνα[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 43, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.71)], Epic dialect σήμηνα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.358)]; but in codices of [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus (“HG” 1.1.2, +others) and later writers (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.3.6, NT.Act.25.27, 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 1.41.3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.2) ἐσήμᾱνα, and so in Mitteis “Chr.” 29.8 (2nd c.BC))]: perfect σεσήμαγκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristobulus Historicus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 13.12, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.26.29:)] —middle, future σημᾰνοῦμαι, Ionic dialect -έομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 3, etc.)]: aorist ἐσημηνάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.175, etc.)]:—passive, future σημανθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.267, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1593)]: future middle in passive sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 44)]: aorist ἐσημάνθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 47.16)]: perfect σεσήμασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.39, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954a, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. singular σεσήμανται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125)], infinitive σεσημάνθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1196)]: (σῆμα):—show by a sign, indicate, point out, τέρματα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.358; δείξω ὁδὸν ἠδὲ ἕκαστα σημανέω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.26)]; τοῦτον σημήνας after indicating the person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5; τέκμαρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 667; θησαύρισμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 37; σ. τι περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 682a; σ. ὅ τι χρὴ ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 12)]; σ. εὔδια πάντα (i.e. εἶναι) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.22:)] —middle, πάντα σημαίνει you have all things shown you (?), [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 1039.11 (from Limyra).)]
2 absolutely, give signs, φθόγγος, φῶς σ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 245, “Ag.” 293; ὁ λόγος σημαινέτω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 345)]; σ. καπνῷ make signal, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 497: frequently in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] in future with αὐτός, πλοῦς αὐτὸς σημανεῖ [Refs (“Hel.” 151; τὸ δ᾽ ἔργον αὐτὸ σημανεῖ “Andr.” 265)]; αὐτὸ σημανεῖ (without substantive) [Refs (“Ph.” 623; τἄλλα δ᾽ αὐτὸ σημανεῖ “Ba.” 976.)]
3 of the Delphic oracle, οὔτε λέγει οὔτε κρύπτει ἀλλὰ σημαίνει [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 93)]; so of omens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.2, etc.; σ. ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς [prev. author] “An.” 6.1.31; περί τινος [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.1.19; ἐπὶ τοῖς μέλλουσι γενήσεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.8; πρὸ τῶν μελλόντων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.17)]:—passive, σημαίνεσθαι διὰ τῶν ἐμπύρων [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.222f, etc.)]
4 in later Prose intransitive, appear, be manifest, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 533a11)] (but passive in same sense,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 588b18); σ. ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 989a; compare δηλόω 11.)]
4.b σημαίνει impersonal, signs appear, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 941b2, 944a4.)]
II give a sign or signal to do a thing, or bid one do it, with dative person et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.116, 6.78, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 26, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 688, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.24)]; give orders to, bear command over, with dative, πᾶσι δὲ σημαίνειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.289, compare 10.58, 17.250)]; with genitive, στρατοῦ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.85; also σ. ἐπὶ δμῳῇσι γυναιξίν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.427)]: absolutely, give orders, ὁ δὲ σημαίνων ἐπέτελλεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.445, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.450: in)]participle, σημαίνων,= σημάντωρ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 704 codices)]
II.2 in war or battle, give the signal of attack, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84, etc.; in full, σ. τῇ σάλπιγγι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.1, 5th c.BC: Achaeus Tragicus 37.3; σ. τῷ κέρατι ὡς ἀναπαύεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.4: with _accusative_, σ. ἀναχώρησιν)] give a signal for retreat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.10; ἐπειδὰν ὁ σαλπιγκτὴς σημήνῃ τὸ πολεμικόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.29, compare 4.3.32; τὸ ἀνακλητικόν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.236e)]: with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.18, etc.: _impersonal_ σημαίνει (i.e. ὁ σαλπιγκτής))], signal is given, as τοῖσι Ἕλλησι ὡς ἐσήμηνε when signal was given for the Greeks to attack, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.11: with)]infinitive, ἐσήμαινε παραρτέεσθαι πάντα signal was given to make all ready, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 9.42, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 830)]; also σ. ἐπὶ πλόον πῦρ gives the signal for sailing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 145.)]
II.3 generally, σ. [τῷ ἵππῳ] τι, προχωρεῖν σ. τῷ ἵππῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 9.4, 7.10.)]
II.4 make signals, εἰς τὴν πόλιν [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 6.2.33; σ. ὡς πολεμίων ἐπιόντων [prev. work] 7.2.5:)] —passive, ἐσημάνθησαν προσπλέουσαι[Refs ([prev. work] 6.2.34: _absolutely_, σημανθέντων τῷ Ἀστυάγει ὅτι.. [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.4.18.)]
III signify, indicate, declare, φόνον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1218; τινί τι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.18, 9.49, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 226: followed by ὡς.., 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.34)]; by ὅτι.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 320, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 62c; σ. ὅστις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 618; σ. ὅ τι χρή σοι συμπράσσειν [prev. work] 297 (_anapaest meter_); σ. ὅπῃ γῆς πεπλάνημαι [prev. work] 564 (_anapaest meter_))]; σ. ὅπου.. [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1294; σ. ὅτου τ᾽ εἶ χὠπόθεν [prev. author] “fragment” 104; σ. εἴτε.. [prev. author] “Ph.” 22; σ. ποίῳ θανάτῳ.. NT.John.12.33, 21.19)]: with participle, signify that a thing is, φρυκτοῦ φῶς.. σημαίνει μολόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 293; Κρέοντα προσστείχοντα σημαίνουσί μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 79, compare “OC” 1669; ταῦτα ὡς πολέμου ὄντος σημαίνει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 626e, compare 722e:)] —passive, ὁ σημαινόμενος δοῦλος the abovementioned slave, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 283.12 (1st c.AD): _absolutely_, σημανθέντος)]it having been reported, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (PAmh. 2.31.8 (2nd c.BC), compare above 11.4.)]
III.2 interpret, explain, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108)]; tell, speak, [Refs ([prev. author] 3.106: _absolutely_, σήμαινε)] tell, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 51, compare “OT” 1050; οὐ στηλῶν μόνον σ. ἐπιγραφή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.43.)]
III.3 of a writer, signify, indicate, ὅτι.. [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.5)]; of words, sentences, etc., signify, mean, ταὐτὸν σημαίνει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 393a, compare 437c, “Phdr.” 275d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 213b30, etc.)]; σημαίνοντα significant sounds, opposed to ἄσημα, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1457a32f:)] —passive, τὸ σημαινόμενον the sense, meaning of words, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1405b8, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 31, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 12.27, +others)]; opposed to τὸ σημαῖνον, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.38 (_plural_).)]
B middle σημαίνομαι, give oneself a token, i.e. conclude from signs, conjecture, τὰ μὲν σημαίνομαι, τὰ δ᾽ ἐκπέπληγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 32)]; ἄστροις σ. [τὰς πόλεις], proverbial in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.48; σ. τι ἔκ τινος [prev. work] 2.7)]; of dogs hunting, μυξωτῆρσι σ. τι [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.454.)]
B.II provide with a sign or mark, seal, σημαίνεσθαι βύβλῳ (i.e. βοῦν), i.e. by sealing a strip of byblus round his horn, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.17, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 7.1, 2, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 8:)] —passive, εὖ σεσημάνθαι to be well sealed up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1196)]; τὰ σεσημασμένα, opposed to τὰ ἀσήμαντα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 954a, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.7, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.17, “Ath.Mitt.” 7.368.)]
B.II.2 mark out, choose for oneself, τοὺς εὐρωστοτάτους [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.71.7.)]