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Strong G4592σημεῖον

sign

Transliteration
sēmeion
Pronunciation
say-mi'-on
Morphology
Greek Noun Neuter

Definition

Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4591; an indication especially ceremonially or supernaturally: - miracle sign token wonder.

Detailed definition

σημεῖον, -ου, τό
[in LXX chiefly for אוֹת;]
a sign, mark, token;
__(a) of that which distinguishes a person or thing from others: Mat.26:48 Luk.2:12, 2Th.3:17 (cf. Deiss., LAE, 153.2); before genitive epexeg., Rom.4:11; with genitive obj., Mat.24:8, 30, 2Co.12:12; with genitive subj., Mat.16:3;
__(b) a sign of warning or admonition: Mat.12:39 16:4, Luk.2:34 11:29-30, 1Co.14:22;
__(with) a sign portending future events (Soph., Plat. al.): Mrk.13:4, Luk.21:7, 11 21:25, Act.2:19, Rev.12:1, 3 15:1;
__(d) of miracles and wonders (MM, xxii), regarded as signs of a divine authority: Mat.12:38-39 16:1, 4 Mrk.8:11-12 Luk.11:16, 29 23:8, Jhn.2:11, 18 2:23 4:54 6:30 10:41 12:18, Act.4:16, 22; pl., Mrk.16:17, 20, Jhn.2:11, 23 3:2 6:2, 14 6:26 7:31 9:16 11:47 12:37 20:30, Act.8:6, 1Co.1:22 (Lft., Notes, 162); the same ascribed to false teachers and demons: Mat.24:24, Mrk.13:22, 2Th.2:9, Rev.13:13-14 16:14 19:20; σ. καὶ τέρατα (τ. καὶ σ.; cf. Tr., Syn., § xci), Mat.24:24, Mrk.13:22, Jhn.4:48, Act.2:19, 43 4:30 5:12 6:8 7:36 14:3 15:12, Rom.15:19, 2Th.2:9; id. before καὶ δυνάμεις, 2Co.12:12, Heb.2:4; σ. καὶ δυνάμεις, Act.8:13; δ. καὶ τ. καὶ σ., Act.2:22; σ. διδόναι, Mat.24:24, Mrk.13:22.†
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In the Bible

Strong G4592 appears in 69 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • sign43
  • miracle22
  • wonder3
  • the1
  • token1

First verses

  1. Matthew 12:38
    Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
  2. Matthew 12:39
    But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
  3. Matthew 16:1
    The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
  4. Matthew 16:3
    And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
  5. Matthew 16:4
    A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
  6. Matthew 24:3
    And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
  7. Matthew 24:24
    For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
  8. Matthew 24:30
    And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
  9. Matthew 26:48
    Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
  10. Mark 8:11
    And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
  11. Mark 8:12
    And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
  12. Mark 13:4
    Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
  13. Mark 13:22
    For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
  14. Mark 16:17
    And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
  15. Mark 16:20
    And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
  16. Luke 2:12
    And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
  17. Luke 2:34
    And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
  18. Luke 11:16
    And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
  19. Luke 11:29
    And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
  20. Luke 11:30
    For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
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σημεῖον, τό,
Ionic dialect σημήϊον, Doric dialect σᾱμήϊον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(3).452 (Thera, 4th c.BC))], σᾱμεῖον [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IPE” 12.352.25 (Chersonesus, 2nd c.BC), “IG” 5(1).1390.16 (Andania, 1st c.BC))], σᾱμᾶον [Refs (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 5168 (from Cyrene):)] —= σῆμα in all senses, and more common in Prose, but never in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus or 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)]: mark by which a thing is known, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38; σημεῖα τῶν δεδικασμένων.., σημεῖα πάντων ὧν ἔπραξαν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 614c)]; sign of the future, τυραννίδος σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1355; σ. λαβεῖν ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 514)]; trace, track, σημεῖα δ᾽ οὔτε θηρὸς οὔτε του κυνῶν.. ἐξεφαίνετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 257, compare “El.” 886; τῆς καταβάσεως 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.2)]; of a cork on a buoy, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.12.1.)]
b Doric dialect, tomb, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12(3).452 (4th c.BC), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” [prev. cited])]
2 sign from the gods, omen, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 94; τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν σ. γενόμενα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.81, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 244c, “Ap.” 40b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.1)]; wonder, portent, [LXX+2nd c.BC+ (LXX.Exo.4.8, +others; σ. καὶ τέρατα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.112.8, NT.Matt.24.24, NT.John.4.48, compare “IPE” [same place], 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.114; φόβηθρα καὶ σ. ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ NT.Luke.21.11)]; especially of the constellations, regarded as signs, δύεται σημεῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 529 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ion” 1157.)]
3 sign or signal to do a thing, made by flags, ἀνέδεξε σημήϊον τοῖσι ἄλλοισι ἀνάγεσθαι he made signal for the rest to put to sea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.128)]; signal for battle, τὰ σ. ἤρθη, κατεσπάσθη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.49, 63, etc.)]; καθαιρεῖν τὸ σ. to take it down, strike the flag, as a sign of dissolving an assembly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36)]; τὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 278)]; ὕστερος ἐλθεῖν τοῦ σ. [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 690)]: generally, signal, σ. ὑποδηλῶσαί τινι ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 1011; τὰ σ. αὐτοῖς ἤρθη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.42; τὸ σ. τοῦ πυρός, ὡς εἴρητο, ἀνέσχον [prev. work] 111)]; signal to commence work, [ἡ] τοῦ σημείου ἄρσις [Refs (“Ath.Mitt.” 35.403 (Pergam.))]; σημείῳ ἀβαστάκτῳ, σημείοις ἀβαστάκτοις with unremoved signal (s), of gymnasia, i.e. never closed, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“IGRom.” 4.446 ([prev. passage]), “Abh.Berl.Akad.” 1932(5).44([prev. passage], 2nd c.AD).)]
4 standard or flag, on the admiral's ship, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.92)]; on the general's tent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.13)]; ἔξω τῶν σ. out of the lines, [Refs ([prev. work] 8.3.19.)]
4.b body of troops under one standard or flag, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PAmh.” 2.39.2 (2nd c.BC);compare σημεία 1.2.)]
5 landmark, boundary, limit, ἔξω τῶν σ. τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἐμπορίου out of the limits of your commercial port, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.28)]; of milestones, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “C. Gracchus” 7, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.13.9.)]
6 device upon a shield, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1114)]; upon ships, figure-head, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 933, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 255 (Lyric poetry).)]
7 signet on ring, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 952, “V.” 585, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 191d, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.30, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 42.2, “PRev.Laws” 26.5 (3rd c.BC))]; figure, image, Διὸς κτησίου [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC(?): Anticlides Historicus 13)]; badge, τρίαιναν σ. θεοῦ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 218)]: plural, written characters, γράψαι σημήϊα.. φωνῆς [Refs (“IG” 14.1549 (from Rome).)]
7.b plural (Doric dialect) σαμεῖα, stripes, [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work]5(1).1390.16 (Andania, 1st c.BC))]; clavi· σημεῖα, [Refs (“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”)]
8 watchword, war-cry, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.69.8; ἀπὸ σ. ἑνὸς ἐπιστρέφειν τὰς ναῦς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.28.)]
9 birthmark or distinguishing feature, Wilcken [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Chr.” 76.14 (2nd c.AD), “Sammelb.” 15.27 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]
II sign, token, indication of anything that is or is to be, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1059, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1332; σ. φαίνεις ἐσθλὸς.. γεγώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 24, compare “OT” 710; τέχνης σ. τῆς ἐμῆς [prev. author] “Ant.” 998; so later τὰ σ. τῶν καιρῶν NT.Matt.16.3, etc.)]
II.2 in reasoning, a sign or proof, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 369, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6, 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.25, etc.; τούτων ὑμῖν σημεῖα δείξω 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.103, compare 3.46; τάδε τὰ σ. ὡς.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.5; σ. εἰ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520e)]; ὅτι ἀγαθὸς ἦν.., τοῦτο μέγιστον σ. [Refs ([prev. author] “Min.” 321b)]; τὸ μὴ ἐκδυθῆναι οὐδὲν σ. ἐστι is no proof to the contrary, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.5)]; also, instance, example, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 20)]; σημεῖον δέ· to introduce an argument, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.149, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.86,107, etc.)]
II.3 in the Logic of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)], a sign used as a probable argument in proof of a conclusion, opposed to τεκμήριον (a demonstrative or certain proof), [Refs (“APr.” 70a11, “SE” 167b9, “Rh.” 1357a33.)]
II.3.b in Stoic and Epicurean philosophical, sign as observable basis of inference to the unobserved or unobservable, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.43U., 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 27, +others, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.142, +others)]; περὶ σημείων (uncertain meaning), title of work by Zeno, [Refs (“Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 1.14.)]
II.4 in Medicine texts, symptom, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.6, 15, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.9, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.313, 18(2).306.)]
II.4.b = Latin lenticula, a kind of skin-eruption, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 6.5.1.)]
II.5 plural, shorthand symbols, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 23, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἰδίων βιβλίων” 1, “POxy.” 724.3 (2nd c.AD), 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 42.25.)]
II.6 critical mark, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus “Poëm.” p.73C., 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 3.65.)]
III ={στιγμή}, mathematical point, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 76b5, “Ph.” 240b3, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Def.” 1, +others)]; also ς. (with or without χρόνου) point of time, instant, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 283a11, “Ph.” 262b2f)]
III.2 in Prosody and Music, unit of time, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.14, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Proll. Heph.” 5.)]