Lexical Summary episēmos: bearing a mark, notable Original Word: ἐπίσημοςTransliteration: episēmos Phonetic Spelling: (ep-is'-ay-mos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: bearing a mark, notable Meaning: bearing a mark, notable Strong's Concordance notable, of note. From epi and some form of the base of semaino; remarkable, i.e. (figuratively) eminent -- notable, of note. see GREEK epi see GREEK semaino Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1978: ἐπίσημοςἐπίσημος, ἐπίσημον (σῆμα a sign, mark); 1. properly, having a mark on it, marked, stamped, coined: ἀργύριον, χρυσός (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Josephus). 2. tropically, marked (Latininsignis), both in a good and bad sense; in a good sense, of note, illustrious: Romans 16:7 (Herodotus and following); in a bad sense, notorious, infamous: Matthew 27:16 (Euripides, Or. 249; Josephus, Antiquities 5, 7, 1; Plutarch, Fab. Max. 14; others). |
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