Lexical Summary syssēmon: a fixed sign Original Word: σύσσημονTransliteration: syssēmon Phonetic Spelling: (soos'-say-mon) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a fixed sign Meaning: a fixed sign Strong's Concordance signal, signNeuter of a compound of sun and the base of semaino; a sign in common, i.e. Preconcerted signal -- token. see GREEK sun see GREEK semaino Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4953: σύσσημονσύσσημον (Tdf. συνσημον (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συσσημου, τό (σύν and σῆμα), a common sign or concerted signal, a sign given according to agreement: Mark 14:44. (Diodorus, Strabo, Plutarch, others; for נֵס, a standard, Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 62:10.) The word is condemned by Phrynichus, edition Lob., p. 418, who remarks that Menander was the first to use it; cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 196. |
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