Lexicon tekmérion: a sure sign Original Word: τεκμήριον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: tekmérion Phonetic Spelling: (tek-may'-ree-on) Short Definition: a sign, certain proof Definition: a sign, certain proof. HELPS word-Studies 5039 tekmḗrion – properly, a marker (sign-post) supplying indisputable information, "marking something off" as unmistakable (irrefutable). "The word is akin to tekmor a 'fixed boundary, goal, end'; hence fixed or sure" (WS, 221). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prim. word tekmar (a mark, sign) Definitiona sure sign NASB Translationconvincing proofs (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5039: τεκμήριοντεκμήριον, τεκμηριου, τό (from τεκμαίρω to show or prove by sure signs; from τέκμαρ a sign), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, that from which something is surely and plainly known; an indubitable evidence, a proof ( Hesychius τεκμήριον. σημεῖον ἀληθές): Acts 1:3 (Wis. 5:11; 3Macc. 3:24).
Strong's infallible proof. Neuter of a presumed derivative of tekmar (a goal or fixed limit); a token (as defining a fact), i.e. Criterion of certainty -- infallible proof. |
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