confirmation

ἔπειμι (A), ( εἰμί

A sum) inf. ἐπεῖναι: [dialect] Ep. [tense] impf.

ἔπεσαν Od.2.344

: [tense] fut. ἐπέσομαι, [dialect] Ep. and Lyr. -έσσομαι, 4.756, Pi.O.13.99:—to be upon, c. dat. loci,

κάρη ὤμοισιν ἐπείη Il.2.259

;

σῆμα δ' οὐκ ἐπῆν κύκλῳ A. Th. 591

; in Prose mostly with Prep.,

ἐπὶ τοῦ καταστρώματος ἐ. Hdt. 8.118

;

ἐπὶ [τῷ ποταμῷ] πύλαι ἔπεισι Id.5.52

, cf. 7.176;

ἐπὶ ταῖς οἰκίαις τύρσεις ἐπῆσαν X.An.4.4.2

: abs.,

κώπη δ' ἐλέφαντος ἐπῆεν Od.21.7

, cf. 2.344, Il.5.127, A.Ag. 547, etc.

2 to be upon, be set upon, of names,

οὐκ ἔπεστι ἐπωνυμίη Περσέϊ Hdt.6.53

; so

ψεύδεσι σεμνὸν ἔπεστί τι Pi.N.7.23

;

τοῖσι λόγοις σῶφρον ἔ. ἄνθος Ar.Nu. 1025

; to be attached,

μελέτη δ' ἔπεστι παντί Anacreont.58.3

;

οὔτε τις τάξις οὔτε ἀνάγκη ἔπεστιν αὐτοῦ τῷ βίῳ Pl.R. 561d

; esp. of rewards and penalties, ποινά, κέρδος ἐπέσται, A.Eu. 543 (lyr.), Ar.Av. 597;

ἔπεστι νέμεσις S.El. 1467

;

ἔσχαται τιμωρίαι ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις ἔπεισιν Is.3.47

, cf. Pl.Lg. 943d: abs., Ταραντίνων οὐκ ἐπῆν ἀριθμός no count was taken, no number was attached, Hdt.7.170, cf. 191; to be at hand, be present,

τίς τέρψις ἐπέσται; S.Aj. 1216

(lyr.);

αἰσχύνη X.Cyr.6.2.33

;

πιεῖν δὲ θάνατος οἶνον, ἢν ὕδωρ ἐπῇ Cratin.273

(s.v.l.); τὰ ἐπόντα accidents or characteristics, opp. τὸ ὑποκείμενον, Plot.2.4.10.

3 to be in one's possession,

ἀνέρες οἷσιν ἔπεστι μέγα κράτος h.Cer. 150

.

4 to be imminent,

ἐπόντος τοῦ φόβου τούτου D.21.9

; εἰ μηδεὶς ἐπῆν ἀγὼν μηδὲ κίνδυνος ibid.

5 ἔπι for ἔπεστι (v.

ἐπί E. 11

).

II of Time, to be hereafter, remain,

ἀλλ' ἔτι πού τις ἐπέσσεται Od.4.756

; to be at hand,

οὐδέ τι δειλὸν γῆρας ἐπῆν Hes.Op. 114

; ἐπεσσόμενοι ἄνθρωποι generations to come, Orac. ap. Hdt.6.77, Epigr. ap. Aeschin. 3.184; ἐπεσσόμενοι alone, Theoc.12.11.

III to be set over,

τισί Hdt.7.96

, 8.71;

ἔπεστί σφι δεσπότης νόμος Id.7.104

;

τίς δὲ ποιμάνωρ ἔ.; A.Pers. 241

(troch.), cf. 555 (lyr.).

IV to be added, be over and above, of numbers,

χιλιάδες ἔπεισι ἐπὶ ταύτῃσι ἑπτά Hdt.7.184

, cf. 185; ἐπόντων τεσσάρων plus four, Arr.Tact.10.8; τὰ ἐπεσόμενα τούτοις (sc. προβάτοις) Arch.Pap.1.64 (ii B.C.).

V to be added as confirmation,

ἔξορκος ἐπέσσεται Pi.O.13.99

.

2 belong in addition,

τὰν περὶ αὐτὸ χώραν ἐπείμειν Πριανέων Schwyzer289.27

(ii B.C.).

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ἔπειμι (B), ( εἶμι

A ibo) inf. ἐπιέναι, serving in [dialect] Att. as [tense] fut. of ἐπέρχομαι: [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3sg. [tense] impf.

ἐπήϊεν Il.17.741

; [ per.] 3pl.

ἐπήϊσαν Od.11.233

,

ἐπῇσαν 19.445

; [dialect] Att. ἐπῇα, [ per.] 3pl. ἐπῇσαν: ἐπιείσομαι, -εισαμένη (qq. v.) belong to a different word:

I come upon (in [tense] fut. sense, though this is not so fixed in Hom. as in [dialect] Att.):

1 of persons, come upon, approach, Od. 16.42, etc.

b mostly in hostile sense, come against, attack, c. dat., Il. 13.482, etc.;

τῷ λόφῳ ἐ. Th.4.129

; in Prose also with Preps., ἐ. ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας, Hdt.7.157, Th.1.86 (v.l. πρός), etc.;

πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος Id.7.4

: abs.,

Αἰνείαν ἐπιόντα Il.13.477

, cf. 5.238;

ἐπάγοντες ἐπῇσαν Od.19.445

; οἱ ἐπιόντες the invaders, assailants, Hdt.4.11, etc.;

ὡς ἐπιών

by assault,

D.1.21

; but ὁ ἐπιών in Trag., = ὁ τυχών, the first comer,

τό γ' αἴνιγμ' οὐχὶ τοὐπιόντος ἦν ἀνδρὸς διειπεῖν S.OT 393

, cf. OC 752.

c get on the βῆμα to speak, v.l. for παριέναι in Th.1.72; come on, of performers, dub. l. in X.An.6.1.11.

d approach, attack a question, Arist.Ph. 186a4.

2 of events, come upon or over one, overtake, c. acc.,

πρίν μιν καὶ γῆρας ἔπεισιν Il.1.29

(but

ἔπειμι γῆρας ἔς τε τὸν μόρσιμον αἰῶνα Pi.I.7(6).41

);

οἷός σε χειμὼν καὶ κακῶν τρικυμία ἔπεισι A.Pr. 1016

: c. dat., come near,

ὀρυμαγδὸς ἐπήϊεν ἐρχομένοισιν Il.17.741

; δεινῶν ἐπιόντων πᾶσι Ἕλλησι threatening them, Hdt.7.145: abs.,

χειμὼν ἐπιών Hes.Op. 675

;

νὺξ ἐπῄει A.Pers. 378

, cf. X.Mem.4.3.14, An.5.7.12; τὸ ἐπιόν the (madness) which threatens me, Pl.Phdr. 238d.

b c. dat. pers., come into one's head, occur to one, εἰ καὶ ἐπίοι αὐτῷ λέγειν if it so much as occurred to him to say.., Id.R. 388d, cf. 558a;

ὅ τι ἂν ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου ἐπίῃ μοι X.Mem.4.2.4

;

ἂν.. ὑμῖν ἐπίῃ σκοπεῖν D.21.185

: abs.,

τὸ ἐπιόν

what occurs to one,

Pl.Phdr. 264b

.

II of Time, come on or after: mostly in part. ἐπιών, οῦσα, όν, following, succeeding, instant, ἡ ἐπιοῦσα ἡμέρα the coming day, Hdt.3.85, Ar.Ec. 105, Pl.Cri. 44a;

ἡ 'πιοῦσα λαμπὰς θεοῦ E.Med. 352

; ἡ ἐπιοῦσα (sc. ἡμέρα) Plb.2.25.11, LXXPr.27.1, Act.Ap.16.11;

τῆς ἐ. νυκτός Pl.Cri. 46a

;

τῇ ἐ. νυκτί Act.Ap.23.11

;

ὁ ἐ. βίοτος E.Or. 1659

;

τοῦ ἐ. χρόνου Pl.Lg. 769c

;

ἐν τῷ ἐ. χρόνῳ X.Cyr. 2.1.23

;

ἡ ἐ. ὥρα τοῦ ἔτους D.8.18

;

εἰς τὴν ἐ. ἐκκλησίαν Id.21.162

, IG 22.717.16;

εἰς τὴν ἐ. Πυλαίαν D.18.151

; τοὐπιόν the future, E.Fr.1073.6;

τῆς ἐ. ἐλπίδος Ar.Th. 870

;

περὶ τῶν ἐπιόντων D.Ep.4.3

; τῶν ἐ. ἕνεκα because of the consequences, Id.19.258.

2 generally, come after, succeed,

κύματα.. βάντ' ἐπιόντα τε S.Tr. 115

(lyr.); ὁ ἐπιών the successor, Id.OC 1532;

αὐτόματα ἔπεισιν ἐκ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ἐπιτηδευμάτων Pl.R. 427a

; τὰ ἐπιόντα the words which follow, Id.Prt. 344a, cf. Sph. 257c.

3 rarely, pass, elapse,

ἐπιόντος τοῦ χρόνου Id.Ti. 44b

.

III go over a space, traverse, visit,

ἀγρόν Od.23.359

;

χώρους Hdt.5.74

; of an officer,

ἐ. πύλας E.Ph. 1164

;

τὸ στράτευμα Th.7.78

, etc.

2 go over, i.e. count over,

φώκας.. ἀριθμήσει καὶ ἔπεισιν Od.4.411

; think over,

τῇ μνήμῃ ἕκαστα Luc.Herm.1

; read, Hld.2.6.

ἰσχῡρο-ποίησις, εως, ἡ,

A strengthening,

τῶν ἀσθενούντων μορίων Aët.12.21

.

II confirmation, corroboration, Gloss.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: ἀμελεῖν H.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Bechtel KZ 44, 354 connected the PN Arg. Γαψίας, Delph. Γάψων, without any confirmation. Cf. Kretschmer Glotta 5, 307. One proposed corrections: *ναπελεῖν = νηπελεῖν, Whatmough, Class. Phil. 53 (1958) 203f. Fur. 391 compares ἀπαλεῖν ἀμελεῖν H., most promising.

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `work artfully, embellish' (Il.)

Other forms: only present stem

Dialectal forms: Myc. dadarejode \/ daidalejon-de\/

Derivatives: δαίδαλμα `work of art' (Theoc.). - δαίδαλον n. `id., ornament' (Il.); Δαίδαλος name of a mythical artist (Il.), δαίδαλος `artfull' (A.); δαιδάλεος (Il., cf. μαρμαίρω: μαρμάρεος etc.; acc. to Leumann metrical variant to πολυ-δαίδαλος `rich in ornament'); also δαιδαλόεις (Q. S., like παιπαλόεις). - Denomin. δαιδαλόω (Pi.), δαιδαλεύομαι (Ph.) with δαιδαλεύτρια `good artist' (Lyk.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: The relation between δαιδάλλω, δαίδαλος, δαίδαλον is discussed. Leumann Hom. Wörter 131ff. starts from a Mediterranean word δαίδαλον `ornament', from where δαιδάλλω and the compound πολυ-δαίδαλος `rich in ornament'. - Others start from δαιδάλλω as an intensive reduplicated formation (with δαίδαλον etc. postverbal); cf. Schwyzer 647 and 725. From Greek one compares δέλτος and δηλέομαι, s. vv; further δάλλει κακουργεῖ H. and δόλων; see also δόλος. - From other languages several words for `build, split', which are hardly relevant for Greek, e. g. Lat. dolāre `hew', Skt. dár-dar(ī)ti `split', OIr. delb `form' (\< *del-u̯ā) etc. Local, i.e. Pre-Greek origin seems more probable, for which Δαίδαλος is a confirmation. (Did δαιδάλλω arise from *dal^y-dal^y-?)

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: an Anatolian religious society, connected with the Magna Mater (inscr., AP).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: Phrygian word; has been connected with Gr. θωμός `heap', Germ. e. g. Goth. doms `judgement' without further confirmation. Cf. Wikander Feuerpriester in Kleinasien und Iran (Lund 1946) 1ff. Masson found the word in Hipponax (ed. 123). Cf. bibliogr. Bull. Ep. 1992 n^o 202. Neumann, Florilegium Linguisticum, 345-353 shows that the word first indicates the building of the meetings; as it may have ου from o before nasal, the word could be identical with δόμος (it is uncertain whether Δύμας or Myc. duma has anything to do with it).

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Grammatical information: m. n.

Meaning: `Egyptian or northern (LSJ) beer' (Thphr., Str.; The Egyptians did not kmow the wine acc. to Hdt. 2, 77, but this is wrong (Masson, RPh. 1962, 50), A. Supp. 952f.).

Other forms: Pap. almost only ζῦτος (- ύ-; s. LSJ.); the υ is long in verse, LSJ.

Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in ζυτο-ποιός, - έω, - ία `beer-brewer, brew, brewing' (pap.).

Derivatives: ζύθιον ἀλφίτου πόσις H., ζυτᾶς `brewer', ζυτηρά `beer-tax', ζυτικός, n. - όν `id.' (pap.).

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably] Egypt.

Etymology: The meaning suggests Egyptian origin (Sommer Lautstud. 153, Peruzzi Humanitas 1, 138f., Nencione, St. It. Fil Class. 16 (1939) 21 n. 2). The comparison with ζύμη might point to IE origin (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 143, also Specht Ursprung 255). The variation θ\/τ seems to point to Pre-Greek, but I see no confirmation. A Greek suffix - θος is doubtful, cf. Chantraine, Form. 365-8. Henning ( BSOAS 11 (1949) 720 and 28 (1965) 245) thinks that the word was taken from Scythian, cf. Sogd. zwtk (read: zute) `alcoholic drink, beer', as in the case of ἀκινάκης.

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Grammatical information: suff.

Meaning: multiplicative suffix in πολλά-κι(ς) `often' (Il.), τετρά-κι(ς) `four times' (ε 306), πεντά-κι(ς) `five times' (Pi.).

Other forms: ep. lyr. Dor. also - κι, Lac. - κιν.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [646] * kʷi- `something'

Etymology: With πολλά-κι(ς) agrees in meaning Skt. (Ved.) purū́-cid `often'; also the forms can be united assuming that, the plural πολλά `often' replaces an older *πολύ̄ (s. πολύς), as the *kʷ which must be posited for Skt. c̯ in Greek after υ was represented by κ. A confirmation gives Tarent. ἀμά-τις `once' = Cret. ἀμά-κις H. From πολλάκι(ς) the κ-forms spread to the numeral adverbs τετράκι(ς) etc.; cf. further οὑ-κί. The ending of - κις: Skt. cid reminds of ἕως `unto': Skt. yā́vat (s. on 2. ἕως); note further the forms like αὖθι(ς), αὖθιν, further δίς, τρίς. - Etym. - κι, - τι = Skt. cid is identical with the indefinite τι `something', s. τίς. - Schwyzer 299 after Wackernagel KZ 25, 286f. = Kl. Schr. 1, 230f.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `lord, ruler, possessor', adj. (m. f. n.) `ruling, deciding, entitled to, decided' (posthom.), f. κυρία `(lady) who rules' (hell.).

Derivatives: κυρία (from κυρι-ία; cf. κυρεία from κυριεύω below) f. `rule, possession' (Arist., hell.), κυριότης f. `lordship, rule' (christ. lit.); κυριακός `belonging to the lord (= Christ), to the emperor' (Empire); κυριεύω `be, become lord, possess, get power' (X., Arist.) with κυριεία, κυρεία (Schwyzer 194) `possession, proprietary rights' (hell.), κυριευτικός, Adv. - κῶς `regarding the prop. rights' (pap.). - κυρωθῆναι, act. κυρῶσαι, κυρόω `become, make rightful' (IA.) with κύρωσις `ratification' (Th., Pl.), κυρωτής `who ratifies' (Att. inscr.); backformation κῦρος n. `authority, confirmation' (IA.) - ἄκῡρος `without authority, unvalid' (Att.) with ἀκυρόω `make unvalid' (Din., hell.), from where ἀκύρωσις, - ωτος with - ωσία (late).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [592] *ḱeuh₂- `swell, strong'

Etymology: Like e.g. ἄν-υδρ-ος `without water' is based on ὕδωρ, ἄ-κῡρ-ος `without authority' supposes an r-stem, which is also seen in κύρ-ιος. Beside κύρ-ιος there may have been an ο-deriv. *κῦρ-ος, which would agree with Skt. śū́ra-, Av. sūra- `hero'; cf. the Skt. words for `sun', sū́r-ya- and sū́r-a- from súvar- n. (old l-stem, s. on ἥλιος). Cf. Schwyzer 727 n. 2; slightly different Wackernagel Syntax 2, 61 n. 1. From *κῦρος m. perhaps also κυρωθῆναι, κυρόω; but κυρ-ωθῆναι can be derived directly from the r-stem ( ἀνδρ-ωθῆναι: ἀνήρ). A trace of this r-stem shows ἔγ-κυαρ `pregnant' (Milet, VI<sup>a</sup>), from *κύαρ `foetus' (Kretschmer Glotta 8, 250). Other derivations: Skt. śávīra- `strong, powerful' (*ḱeuh₂-ro-), Celt., e.g. Gaul. Καυαρος, Welsh cawr `giant'; (uncertain Κυάρη ἡ Άθηνᾶ H.) - Further s. on κυέω.

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Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `philtre, charm, block of a pulley' (Hero Bel., Pap. III<sup>p</sup>), [`eiserner Pflock, Bolzen'] (Sch.), `throwing machine, ballista, tormentum' (Gloss., H.), `means to deceive, bewitch' (Heracl. All., H.).

Derivatives: μαγγανάριος `deceiver' (pap. III<sup>p</sup>), `mechanic' (Papp.), will be a loan from Latin. Denomin. verb μαγγανεύω `deceive, bewitch with artificial means, play tricks' with μαγγαν-εία `trickery' (Pl. Lg., Ph.), - εύματα pl. `charms, philtres' (Pl., Plu.), - ευτής `impostor, quack' (Suid., Phot.), - ευτικη τέχνη `agical art' (Poll.), - εύτριαι pl. H. s. βαμβακεύ-τριαι, - ευτήριον `haunt for impostors' (Them.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: The word got as a loan a wide spread: Lat. manganum `machine' (to Rom., e.g. Ital. mangano `sling') with the unclear byform mangō `a handler, who promotes his ware by artificial means' (from hell. *μάγγων?), from where mangōnium `dressing up ware', Alb. mangë `hemp-brake', mengji `medicine', MHG MLG mange `throwing-machine', NHG Mange(l) `smoothing roll(?) for laundry' (from where Balt., e.g. Lith. mañgalis `mangling-machine'). If we forget these loans, a few words from the farthest east and west remain, which have been connected as cognate with μάγγανον: Skt. mañju-, mañjula- `beautiful, sweet, charming', maṅgala n. `happiness, salvation, good omen' (all ep. class.), Osset. mäng `deceit'; Celt., MIr. meng `deceit, cleverness, ruse' (but Toch. A maṅk `guilt, fault, sin', adduced by Schneider, together with B meṅki `id.', also `smaller', with μανός, μάνυ). To this rather motley collection one may add further the group of μάσσω `knead', through which the most wide combinations can be made. - Lit. in Bq, WP. 2, 233, Pok. 731, W.-Hofmann s. mangō; esp. Meringer IF 19, 436f. a. 21, 282, whose attempts to make the history of these words concrete, are in principle no doubt correct, even when they lack confirmation or are in detail even wrong. - From an IE root * meng- (Pok. 731) the Greek form cannot be derived; the word must then be Pre-Greek (as was already stated by W.- Hofmann s.v. mango), where mang-an- is unproblematic. The Sanskrit words are semantically too far off (perh. they are of Dravidian origin, Mayrhofer KEWA547, 553 and EWAia 379f.). (Such isolated Sanskrit comparisons with Greek must often be discarded.) The other words will be loans from Latin. (Lith. mañgalis is a loan from German.) The original meaning was no doubt as Frisk assumed a technical instrument. The meaning `hemp-brake' goes in the same direction, but the meaning ballista I cannot easily combine. The meaning `mangling-machine' recurs several times (Germ. `Glättroll für Wäsche'). It served to `embellish' the cloths. From there the notion of deceit. It is a good example of the long life of a Pre-Greek word which was by some considered as IE.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `band, string' (κ 23, D. S. 3, 21), dat. pl. - θαις (Agatharch. 47); acc. sg. - θον (H.), nom. - θος (Zonar.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Formation like ἕλμις ( μέρμινθα v. l. D. S. l. c. like ἕλμινθος etc.), ὄρνις γέλγις a. o. (Schwyzer 510, Chantraine 366). Further analysis unknown; a suffixal - μι- (with θ-enlargement) is possible; broken reduplication may be considered. A primary verb mer- `twist, bind' (WP. 2, 272 a. Pok. 733) is nowhere attested; cognates have been supposed in μηρύω as well as in βρόχος and μάραθ(ρ)ον (s. vv.), both without further confirmation. For foreign (Pre-Greek) origin Chantraine l.c., Deroy Glotta 35, 191ff. Fur. 289 compares μήρινθος, σμήρινθος `string, thread' and further σμῆριγξ `hair', σμήριγγες πλεκταί, σειραί, βόστρυχοι H.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `seal, seal of a state, impression of a seal, signet, seal-ring, cut stone' (IA.), `sealed field-plot' (pap.). -- Extensively on the meaning of σφραγίς J. Diehl Sphragis. Eine semasiologische Nachlese. Diss. Gießen 1938 (w. lit.); also Kenna JHSt.81, 99ff., Kranz RhM 104, 3ff., 97f.

Derivatives: Dimin. σφραγίδιον n. (Ar., Thphr., inscr.). Denom. verb σφραγ-ίζω, - ίζομαι, often w. prefix, e.g. ἐπι-, κατα-, συν-, `to provide with a seal, to seal, to signet, to stamp, to confirm' (IA.) with - ισμα ( ἀντι-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-) n. `impression of a seal, sealed document' (E., X., hell. a. late); - ισμός ( ἐπι-, παρα-, περι-) m. `sealing, confirmation' (hell. a. late); ἐν-, ἐπι-σφράγ-ισις m. `sealing' (late); - ιστήριον n. `seal, stamp' (pap.); - ιστής ( ἐπι-, ἀπο-) m. `sealer, witness' (Plu., Luc., pap. a.o.). -- Besides Σφραγίδιον name of a cave ( ἄντρον) of prophesying nymphs on the Kithairon (Paus. 9, 3, 5); there the νύμφαι Σφραγίτιδες Plu. Arist. 11).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (S).

Etymology: Formation like κληΐς, κνημίς a.o.; so prob. a secondary deriv. Not certainly explained. For the Σφραγίτιδες νύμφαι Lobeck Paralip. 51 n. 59 assumes attractively connection with σφαραγέομαι referring to the rustling of the sourced ( ἐρι-σφάραγος a.o. of Poseidon; on σφαραγ-: σφρᾶγ- cf. e.g. ταραχ-ή: τρᾶχ-ύς, τέτρηχα). For σφραγίς a similar connection with help of Lith. spróga `crevice' (spróg-ti `explode, burst') was suggested by Prellwitz s.v. and Diehl op. cit. 1 f. (from the bursting of the seal(mass) when pressed in). Also Schwyzer 465 connects σφραγίς wit σφαραγέομαι, but referring to Lat. bulla. One might then consider, whether σφραγίς owes its name to the burning and the accompanying sound; cf. on the one hand Russ. pečátь `seal' as `instrument to brand in signs' (to pekú `bake'), on the other hand the expression σφαραγεῦντο `crackling, hissing' (ι 390) of the eye-roots of he Cyclops when the burning hot wood was pressed in. -- Furnée 324 n 7 takes the word as Pre-Greek for its suffix (-ῑδ).

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `seal, seal of a state, impression of a seal, signet, seal-ring, cut stone' (IA.), `sealed field-plot' (pap.). -- Extensively on the meaning of σφραγίς J. Diehl Sphragis. Eine semasiologische Nachlese. Diss. Gießen 1938 (w. lit.); also Kenna JHSt.81, 99ff., Kranz RhM 104, 3ff., 97f.

Derivatives: Dimin. σφραγίδιον n. (Ar., Thphr., inscr.). Denom. verb σφραγ-ίζω, - ίζομαι, often w. prefix, e.g. ἐπι-, κατα-, συν-, `to provide with a seal, to seal, to signet, to stamp, to confirm' (IA.) with - ισμα ( ἀντι-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-) n. `impression of a seal, sealed document' (E., X., hell. a. late); - ισμός ( ἐπι-, παρα-, περι-) m. `sealing, confirmation' (hell. a. late); ἐν-, ἐπι-σφράγ-ισις m. `sealing' (late); - ιστήριον n. `seal, stamp' (pap.); - ιστής ( ἐπι-, ἀπο-) m. `sealer, witness' (Plu., Luc., pap. a.o.). -- Besides Σφραγίδιον name of a cave ( ἄντρον) of prophesying nymphs on the Kithairon (Paus. 9, 3, 5); there the νύμφαι Σφραγίτιδες Plu. Arist. 11).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (S).

Etymology: Formation like κληΐς, κνημίς a.o.; so prob. a secondary deriv. Not certainly explained. For the Σφραγίτιδες νύμφαι Lobeck Paralip. 51 n. 59 assumes attractively connection with σφαραγέομαι referring to the rustling of the sourced ( ἐρι-σφάραγος a.o. of Poseidon; on σφαραγ-: σφρᾶγ- cf. e.g. ταραχ-ή: τρᾶχ-ύς, τέτρηχα). For σφραγίς a similar connection with help of Lith. spróga `crevice' (spróg-ti `explode, burst') was suggested by Prellwitz s.v. and Diehl op. cit. 1 f. (from the bursting of the seal(mass) when pressed in). Also Schwyzer 465 connects σφραγίς wit σφαραγέομαι, but referring to Lat. bulla. One might then consider, whether σφραγίς owes its name to the burning and the accompanying sound; cf. on the one hand Russ. pečátь `seal' as `instrument to brand in signs' (to pekú `bake'), on the other hand the expression σφαραγεῦντο `crackling, hissing' (ι 390) of the eye-roots of he Cyclops when the burning hot wood was pressed in. -- Furnée 324 n 7 takes the word as Pre-Greek for its suffix (-ῑδ).

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: son of Pelops, brother of Atreus, father of Aigisthos (Β 107); patronymicon Θυεστιάδης = Aigisthos (δ 518); Θυέστειος `belonging to Θ.' (Ar.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [261] * dʰeuh₂-`storm, dash'

Etymology: From θύος, s. v.; cf. also on θυεία and Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 211. Though there is no confirmation for this interpretation.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `Poseidon' (Att.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. Posedao, dat. -ne.

Derivatives: Beside it ep. poet. Ποσειδάων, - άωνος, Ion. - έων, lyr., also Cret., Epid., Arc. a.o. inscr. Ποσειδάν, Arc. also Ποσοιδάν, from where Lac. Ποhοιδάν (on the acc. Hdn. 2, 914 a. 916). With - τ- in Dor. forms from diff. areas: Ποτειδά(Ϝ)ων, - δάν, also (Dor. a. Att. com.) Ποτ(ε)ιδᾶς; further also (Aeol.?) Ποτοιδαν (Pergam. V^a). -- From it 1. Ποσειδώνιος (also as PN), - δαώνιος, - δάνιος, Ποτειδάνιος `consecrated to P.', esp. - ιον n. `temple of P.' 2. Ποσιδήϊος (ep. Ion. beside Aeol. Ποσειδάων, metr. condit.; Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 20), - δεῖος, - δαῖος, - ιον n. `id.', Myc. Posidaijo, with Ποσιδηϊών, - δεών IA. Monthname. 3. Ποτείδαια f. name of a Corinth. colony on Chalkidike. 4. Ποτιδάϊχος Boeot. PN (Bechtel Dial. 1, 267).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: From Ποτειδά̄Ϝων (like Μαχά̄-ων, Άρετά-ων a.o.; Schwyzer 521) arose through contraction - δῶν, - δάν; beside it - δᾶς; cf. Έρμ-άων, - άν, - έας, - ῆς (Kretschmer Glotta 9, 217). The adj. Ποσιδήϊος prob. rather after Όδυσήϊος, Νηλήϊος a.o. than (with Schwyzer 271) from an unatt. *Ποσιδᾶς. The assibilated forms must be generalized from Ποσι- beside older Ποτει-. -- God of the waters (rivers, sources, of the sea). The name is not certainly interpreted. Already by Fick Curt. Stud. 8, 307 explained as univerbation of a voc. *Πότει Δᾶς `o Lord (spouse) of Da, i.e. the earth' (s. Δήμητηρ), an interpretation, which was accepted by Hoffmann and esp. by Kretschmer several times (e.g. Glotta 1, 27 f., 382f.; 13, 245; 22, 255, Wien. Stud. 24, 523ff.) argued and presented with consent of several scholars (Schulze, v. Wilamowitz [s. Schwyzer 271], Mayrhofer AnzAltWiss. 5 [1952] 59 ff., Schachermeyr Poseidon und die Entstehung des griech. Götterglaubens [Bern 1950] 13 ff., Schwyzer 446 a. 572). Ποσι- was then taken as a younger form of the voc., Ποτοι- sometimes (e.g. Schwyzer l.c.) explained as old ablaut-form (rejected by Kretschmer Glotta 1, 383). -- Rejection or doubt by Bechtel Dial. 1, 64f., Fraenkel Lexis 3, 50 ff., thus by several other scholars, who proposed instead other, certainly not better hypotheses: Ehrlich Betonung 81 ff. (to ποταμός and οἶδμα; by Kretschmer Glotta 6, 294 rejected); Heubeck IF 64, 225 ff. (to πόντος and δαῆναι); Carnoy Les ét. class. 22, 342 (2. member to Skt. dā́nu- `drop, dew'). Older attempts w. rich lit. in Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 445 w. n. 2 a. 3. -- Ruijgh REG 80(1967)6-16 concludes that Pre-Greek origin remains a possibility, which seems to me the most probable conclusion. I would posit a form *pat^yaitūn, with a pronounced [o] after labial, with ai pronounded as [ei] as often, and with ū = ω; but I found no confirmation of this reconstruction.

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μαρτυρία, ας, ἡ (s. μαρτυρέω; Hom.+—KLatte, Martyria: Pauly-W. XIV 2, 2032–39; Kl. Pauly III 1058).

① confirmation or attestation on the basis of personal knowledge or belief, testimony

ⓐ act of testifying testimony, testifying (Pla., Leg. 11 p. 937a εἰς μαρτυρίαν κληθείς; Epict. 3, 22, 86 the μ. of the Cynic; PHal 1, 222 εἰς μαρτυρίαν κλῆσις; Iren. 5, 28, 4 [Harv. II 403, 5] διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν μ. κατακριθεὶς πρὸς θηρία) οὗτος ἦλθεν εἰς μαρτυρίαν J 1:7. Of the two witnesses: ὅταν τελέσωσιν τ. μαρτυρίαν αὐτῶν Rv 11:7.

ⓑ content of testimony

α. of historical attestation or testimony (Diod S 11, 38, 6 τῆς ἱστορίας δικαία μαρτυρία; Just., D. 79, 2 ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἠσαίου) J 19:35; 21:24 (JChapman, JTS 31, 1930, 379–87); Papias (2:17).

β. esp. w. ref. to Jesus

א. of human testimony concerning Jesus: by the Baptist J 1:19. By Paul Ac 22:18 (s. TRE XXIII 23–31). By believers Rv 12:11. Human testimony rejected J 5:34.

ב. of transcendent testimony concerning Jesus: he bears witness to himself as the central point of the Christian message: J 3:11, 32f; 8:14. His self-attestation is rejected vs. 13; cp. 5:31. Jesus also testifies concerning himself in Rv 1:2, 9.—God attests him (cp. Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 12 D.: μ. παρὰ Ἀπόλλωνος, p. 13 ἐκ Διός; Dexippus Athen. [III A.D.]:100 Fgm. 1, 7 Jac. ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ μ. for the ‘god’ Lycurgus) J 5:32, 36 (μαρτυρία μείζων as Dionys. Soph., Ep. 77.—Cp. Orig., C. Cels. 8, 9, 25 τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ γενόμενα παράδοξα … τὴν ἀπὸ θεοῦ εἶχε μ.). 1J 5:9bc, 10ab, 11.—RAsting (s. εὐαγγέλιον, end).—On John s. EHoskyns, The Fourth Gosp., ed. FDavey ’47 p. 58–95.

ג. Rv speaks of the μαρτυρία or the μ. Ἰησοῦ which the Christians, or certain Christians (martyrs, prophets), possess: 6:9; 12:17; 19:10ab; 20:4.—FMazzaferri, Bible Translator 39, ’88, 114–22: John’s book is the personal testimony of Jesus.

② testimony in court, testimony (Demosth. 29, 7 al.; Jos., Ant. 4, 219) Mk 14:56, 59; Lk 22:71. κατά τινος against someone Mk 14:55; δύο ἀνθρώπων ἡ μ. the testimony of two persons J 8:17.

③ attestation of character or behavior, testimony, statement of approval (Jos., Ant. 6, 346; cp. Did., Gen. 212, 1) 1J 5:9a; 3J 12; Tit 1:13. ἡ μ. τῆς ἀγαθῆς πράξεως testimony concerning good deeds 1 Cl 30:7. μαρτυρίαν καλὴν ἔχειν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξωθεν have a good standing with outsiders 1 Ti 3:7 (μ.=recommendation: Dio Chrys. 28 [45], 9; Chion, Ep. 2; SIG1073, 17 [II A.D.]).—In the obscure concatenation of clauses 1:6, love seems to be ἔργων δικαιοσύνης μαρτυρία a testimony of upright deeds.—Of a good testimony fr. God (Dio Chrys. 16 [33], 12 τῆς μεγίστης ἔτυχε μαρτυρίας παρὰ τοῦ δαιμονίου) Hs 5, 2, 6.

④ testimony that invites death, a martyr’s death, martyrdom (Iren. 1, 28, 1 [Harv. I 220, 10]) MPol 1:1; 13:2; 17:1.—DELG s.v. μάρτυς. M-M. TW. Sv.

οὖν (Hom.+) a particle, never found at the beginning of a sentence. In our lit. it is an inferential and then mainly a transitional conjunction (so Hdt.+ [Kühner-G. II p. 326].—B-D-F §451, 1; Rob. 1191f; Mlt-Turner 337f).

① inferential, denoting that what it introduces is the result of or an inference fr. what precedes, so, therefore, consequently, accordingly, then.

ⓐ in declarative sentences (PTebt 37, 15 [73 B.C.] ἐγὼ οὖν … γέγραφα=‘consequently I … am writing’; difft. 4 below) Mt 1:17; 3:10 (s. also 3 below); 7:24; Lk 3:9; 11:35; J 6:13; Ac 1:21; 5:41; Ro 5:1; 6:4; 11:5; 13:10; 16:19; 1 Cor 4:16; 7:26; 2 Cor 3:12; Eph 4:1, 17; Phil 2:28; 1 Pt 2:7; 3J 8 al.; AcPlCor 2:10, 19.—ἀπόδοτε οὖν well, then, give back Mt 22:21 (here οὖν=mod. Gk. λοιπόν).

ⓑ in commands and invitations, with intensive force (PTebt 33, 2 [φρόν]τισον οὖν ἵνα γένη(ται) ἀκολύθως=‘take care, then, that its (the letter’s) stipulations are followed’. Here οὖν picks up on the suggestion of the letter’s importance because of the prestige of the addressee; difft. 3 below) ποιήσατε οὖν καρπὸν ἄξιον τῆς μετανοίας Mt 3:8 (also s. 3 below); ἔσεσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς τέλειοι 5:48. μὴ οὖν φοβεῖσθε 10:31 (cp. ApcEsdr 7:2; Just., D. 9, 2). προσερχώμεθα οὖν μετὰ παρρησίας Hb 4:16. Cp. Mt 6:8, 9, 31; 9:38; Mk 10:9; 13:35; Lk 8:18; 10:2, 40; Ac 2:36; 3:19; 8:22; 23:15, 21 (also s. 4 below); Ro 6:12 (WNauck, Das οὖν-paräneticum: ZNW 49, ’58, 134f); 1 Cor 10:31; 2 Cor 7:1; Gal 5:1; Phil 2:29; Col 2:16 al. νῦν οὖν πορεύεσθε ἐν εἰρήνῃ Ac 16:36.

ⓒ in questions

α. in real questions θέλεις οὖν; do you want, then? Mt 13:28. σὺ οὖν εἶ; are you, then? Lk 22:70. Cp. J 18:39. νόμον οὖν καταργοῦμεν; μὴ γένοιτο Ro 3:31; cp. Gal 3:21.—1 Cor 6:15. τί οὖν; why then? (Menand., Her. 40, Epitr. 313 S. [137 Kö.]; Dio Chrys. 2, 9; Just., D. 3, 2) Mt 17:10; cp. 19:7; J 1:25; what then? (Menand., Epitr. 226 S. [50 Kö], Peric. 744 [321 Kö.]; TestJob 38:7; Just., D. 3, 6; 67, 10) Mt 27:22; Mk 15:12; Lk 3:10; 20:15, 17; J 6:30b. τίς οὖν; (Menand., Epitr. 221 S. [45 Kö.]; TestJob 38:3; Just., D. 7, 1; Ath. 35, 1) Lk 7:42. διὰ τί οὖν οὐκ ἐπιστεύσατε; Mt 21:25; Mk 11:31 (TestJob 38:1; Just., D. 47, 2). πῶς οὖν; (Menand., Epitr. 441 S. [265 Kö.]; TestJob 19:2; Ar. 9, 9; 10, 7 al.) Mt 22:43; J 9:19; Ro 4:10; Ox 1081, 25=Otero p. 83 (SJCh 90, 2); AcPl Ha 10, 9. πότε οὖν; Lk 21:7. πόθεν οὖν; Mt 13:27, 56; J 4:11. ποῦ οὖν; (TestJob 32:2ff) Ro 3:27; Gal 4:15.

β. Certain formulas are favorite expressions, esp. in Paul: τί οὖν; what, then, are we to conclude? (Dio Chrys. 14 [31], 55; 60; 17 [34], 28; Jos., Bell. 2, 364) J 1:21; Ro 3:9; 6:15; 11:7. τί οὖν ἐστιν; what, then, is to be done? Ac 21:22; 1 Cor 14:15, 26. τί οὖν ἐστιν Ἀπολλῶς; what is Apollos, really? 3:5 (s. 3 below). τί οὖν φημι; 1 Cor 10:19. τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; what, then, are we to say? Ro 6:1; 7:7; 9:14, 30. τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν πρὸς ταῦτα; 8:31. τί οὖν ὁ νόμος; Gal 3:19.

γ. in rhetorical questions πόσῳ οὖν διαφέρει ἄνθρωπος προβάτου how much more, then, is a human being worth than a sheep? Mt 12:12. πῶς οὖν σταθήσεται ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ; how then will (Beelzebul’s) kingdom endure? vs. 26.—26:54; Lk 7:31; Ro 10:14 (s. also 4 below).

② marker of continuation of a narrative, so, now, then (s. Rob. 1191: ‘a transitional particle relating clauses or sentences loosely together by way of confirmation’)

ⓐ οὖν serves to resume a subject once more after an interruption: so, as has been said ἔλεγεν οὖν τοῖς ἐκπορευομένοις Lk 3:7 (connecting w. vs. 3). Cp. 19:12; J 4:6, 9, 28; Ac 8:25; 12:5; cp. 25:4 (s. 4 below).—Cp. 1 Cor 8:4 (reaching back to vs. 1); 11:20.

ⓑ οὖν serves to indicate a transition to someth. new. So esp. in the Gospel of John (Rob. 1191: ‘John boldly uses οὖν alone and needs no apology for doing so. It just carries along the narrative with no necessary thought of cause or result’.) now, then, well J 1:22; 2:18, 20; 3:25; 4:33, 46, 48; 5:10, 19; 6:60, 67; 7:25, 28, 33, 35, 40; 8:13, 21, 22, 25 (καὶ ἔλεγον P⁶⁶), 31, 57; 9:7f, 10, 16; 20:30 (s. also 3 below); and oft.; Ac 25:1; 26:9 (also s. 3 below) al. Prob. also J 9:18 οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαίοι Well, the Judeans refused to believe (s. 4 below). Cp. 1 Cor 3:5 (s. also 3 below).

ⓒ οὖν serves to indicate a response (HDana and JMantey, Manual Grammar of the Gk. NT 1927, p. 254) where the transl. in reply, in turn (Ex 8:6) is prob. J 4:9, 48; 6:53 al. In Ac 28:5 (s. also 4 below) Paul’s action is a response in narrative terms to the perception of the islanders: ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀποτινάξας τὸ θήριον he, in turn, shook off the creature.

ⓓ Frequently used w. other particles in continuation of discourse or narrative: ἄρα οὖν s. ἄρα 2b. ἐὰν οὖν Mt 5:19, 23; 24:26; J 6:62; 2 Ti 2:21; Js 4:4; Rv 3:3b; 2 Cl 3:3. ἐάν τε οὖν Ro 14:8. εἰ οὖν s. εἰ 6k. εἰ μὲν οὖν s. εἰ 6g. εἴτε οὖν … εἴτε 1 Cor 10:31; 15:11. ἐπεὶ οὖν s. ἐπεί 2. μὲν οὖν … δέ (Jos., Ant. 13, 76f; Just., D. 43, 7) Mk 16:19f; Lk 3:18f; J 19:24f; Ac 8:4f; 11:19f; 1 Cor 9:25.—Also without δέ denoting contrast (TestJob 40:14; Jos., Ant. 19, 337; Just., A I, 8, 3; Tat. 15, 1) Ac 1:6, 18; 2:41; 5:41; 8:25 al. νῦν οὖν (TestJob 23:7; ApcMos 11:30) Ac 10:33b; 23:15; also 15:10 (s. νῦν 2a).—ὅταν οὖν (Just., D. 138, 2; Ath. 7, 1; 13, 1; 32, 1 al.) Mt 6:2; 21:40; 24:15. ὅτε οὖν J 2:22; 4:45; 6:24; 13:12, 31; 19:6, 8, 30; 21:15. τότε οὖν (ApcEsdr 3:14; Just., D. 56, 19) 11:14; 19:1, 16; 20:8. ὡς οὖν (Jos., Ant. 6, 145, Vi. 292; Just., D. 43, 1; 49, 7) 4:1, 40; 11:6; 18:6; 20:11; 21:9; AcPlCor 1:6. ὥσπερ οὖν Mt 13:40.—οὐκ οὖν s. οὐκοῦν.

③ It has been proposed that some traces of older Gk. usage in which οὖν is emphatic, = certainly, really, to be sure etc. (s. L-S-J-M s.v. 1) remain in the pap (e.g. PLond I, 28, 4, p. 43 [c. 162 B.C.]; PTebt 33, 2 [on this s. 1b above]) and in the NT (so M-M., s.v. 3 and Dana and Mantey, op. cit. p. 255f) Mt 3:8 (s. also 1b above), 10; J 20:30 (s. also 2b above); indeed, of course Ac 26:9 (s. also 2b above); 1 Cor 3:5 (s. also 1cβ above) al. On the other hand, as indicated by the cross references, there is little semantic justification for making a separate classification. (On this s. esp. Rob. 1191–92.)

④ It has also been proposed that οὖν may be used adversatively (M-M., s.v. 4: ‘slightly adversative sense’, and w. ref. to PTebt 37, 15 [73 B.C.]; cp. 1b above; so also Dana and Mantey, op. cit. p. 256f) in some NT pass., e.g. J 9:18 (s. 2b above); Ac 23:21; 25:4; 28:5; Ro 10:14 (s. 1cγ above) in the sense but, however—JMantey, Newly Discovered Mngs. for οὖν: Exp., 8th ser., 22, 1921, 205–14. But s. Rob. 1191–92; B-D-F §451, 1.—Denniston 415–30.—DELG. M-M.

σημεῖον, ου, τό (s. prec. entry; Aeschyl., Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX, pseudepigr., Philo, Joseph., apolog.; loanw. in rabb.; Hippol., Ref. 6, 27, 4; Did., Gen. 115, 9 ‘symbol’; gener. ‘sign’)

① a sign or distinguishing mark whereby someth. is known, sign, token, indication (Diod S 3, 66, 3=evidences τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ θεοῦ; Cornutus 16 p. 21, 9.—Arrian, Anab. 6, 26, 4 of marks in the landscape showing direction; ParJer 5:11 τὰ ς. τῆς πόλεως; Just., A I, 55, 6 al.; Iren. 1, 14, 8 [Harv. I 143, 10]; Orig., C. Cels. 3, 43, 36 ς. τῆς μετὰ θάνατον ἐπιφανείας αὐτοῦ [sc. Ἰησοῦ]; 2, 59, 6 of the scars of the resurrected Lord τὰ ς. τῆς κολάσεως). τοῦτο ὑμῖν σημεῖον this (will be) a sign for you Lk 2:12 (cp. Is 37:30). ὅ ἐστιν ς. ἐν πάσῃ ἐπιστολῇ this is the mark of genuineness in every letter 2 Th 3:17 (Ps.-Pla., Ep. 13, 360a has at its beginning the words σύμβολον ὅτι παρʼ ἐμοῦ ἐστιν). Of a signal previously agreed upon δοῦναί τινι σημεῖον (PFay 128, 7 ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν σημεῖον ‘he gave us a signal’; Jos., Ant. 12, 404) Mt 26:48; 1 Cl 12:7.— A sign of things to come (PsSol 15:9 τὸ … σημεῖον ἀπωλείας ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου αὐτῶν; Did., Gen. 191, 6; Philo, Op. M. 58 σημεῖα μελλόντων; Jos., Bell. 6, 285; 296; 297) Mk 13:4; Lk 21:7. The event to be expected is added in the gen. τί τὸ ς. τῆς σῆς παρουσίας; Mt 24:3. τὸ ς. τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου the sign by which one can mark the coming of the Human One (Son of Man) vs. 30 (TGlasson, JTS 15, ’64, 299f [a military metaphor, ‘standard’; cp. Is 18:3; 1QM 3f]). τὰ σημεῖα τῶν καιρῶν the signs of the (end)times (καιρός 3b) Mt 16:3.— A sign of warning (Plut., Caes. 737 [63, 1]; SibOr 3, 457; Mel., P. 14, 90) 1 Cl 11:2. Prob. in like manner αἱ γλῶσσαι εἰς σημεῖόν εἰσιν τοῖς ἀπίστοις the tongues (γλῶσσα 3) serve as a (warning) sign to the unbelievers 1 Cor 14:22. Likew. the sign of Jonah (s. Ἰωνᾶς 1) in Luke: Lk 11:29, 30. Here the Human One is to be a sign to his generation, as Jonah was to the Ninevites; cp. οὗτος κεῖται εἰς σημεῖον ἀντιλεγόμενον (s. ἀντιλέγω 2) 2:34 (cp. Is 11:12).—W-S. §30, 10d.—GRunze, Das Zeichen des Menschensohnes u. der Doppelsinn des Jonazeichens 1897 (against him PSchmiedel, Lit. Centralblatt 48, 1897, 513–15; Runze again, ZWT 41, 1898, 171–85; finally PSchm. ibid. 514–25); PAsmussen, Protestantenblatt 37, 1904, 375–8; STyson, Bibl. World 33,1909, 96–101; CBowen, AJT 20, 1916, 414–21; JMichael, JTS 21, 1920, 146–59; JBonsirven, RSR 24, ’34, 450–55; HGale, JBL 60, ’41, 255–60; PSeidelin, Das Jonaszeichen, StTh 5, ’51, 119–31; AVögtle, Wikenhauser Festschr. ’53, 230–77; OGlombitza, D. Zeichen des Jona, NTS 8, ’62, 359–66.—In the OT circumcision is σημεῖον διαθήκης=a sign or token of belonging to the covenant (Gen 17:11). For Paul this sign becomes a mark, or seal (so σημεῖον: PRev 26, 5 [III B.C.]; PRein 9 introd. [II B.C.]; 35, 3; BGU 1064, 18) σημεῖον ἔλαβεν περιτομῆς σφραγῖδα he got the mark of circumcision as a seal Ro 4:11. In the difficult pass. B 12:5 ἐν σημείῳ is prob. best taken as by a sign; but it is poss. that the text is defective (s. Windisch, Hdb. ad loc.; RKraft, Did. and Barnabas ’65, 119 note: ‘standard, norm’).—τὰ σημεῖα τοῦ ἀποστόλου 2 Cor 12:12a belongs rather to the next category; the signs of the (true) apostle (cp. SIG 831, 14 [117 A.D.] ἡγούμην σημεῖα ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν) are, as is shown by the verb κατειργάσθη and what follows, the wonders or miracles performed by him.

② an event that is an indication or confirmation of intervention by transcendent powers, miracle, portent

ⓐ miracle

α. a miracle of divine origin, performed by God himself, by Christ, or by men of God (cp. Diod S 5, 70, 4 πολλὰ ς. of the young Zeus; 16, 27, 2 ἐγένετο αὐτῷ σημεῖον ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος; Strabo 16, 2, 35 παρὰ τ. θεοῦ ς.; Appian, Ital. 8 §1 σημείων γενομένων ἐκ Διός, Hann. 56 §233; SIG 709, 25 [c. 107 B.C.] διὰ τῶν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ γενομένων σαμείων; PGM 1, 65; 74; Jos., Ant. 2, 274; 280; Mel., P. 78, 568): Mt 12:38f; 16:1 (ς. ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ), 4; Mk 8:11 (ς. ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, as Synes., Prov. 1, 7; s. OLinton, The Demand for a Sign from Heaven, StTh 19, ’65, 112–29; JGibson, JSNT 38, ’90, 37–66, a phenomenon suggesting divine deliverance), 12; 16:17, 20; Lk 11:16 (ς. ἐξ οὐρανοῦ), 29 (s. 1 above); 23:8; J 2:11, 18, 23; 3:2; 4:54; 6:2, 14, 26, 30; 7:31; 9:16; 10:41; 11:47; 12:18, 37; 20:30 (on σημ. as a designation of Jesus’ miracles in J s. Hdb. on J 2:11 and 6:26; JBernard, ICC John 1929, I introd. 176–86; CBarrett, The Gosp. acc. to St. John, ’55, 62–65); Ac 4:16, 22 (τὸ ς. τῆς ἰάσεως the miracle of healing); 8:6; 1 Cor 1:22; Agr 9. τί εἴδετε σημεῖον ἐπὶ τὸν γεννηθέντα βασιλέα; what kind of sign did you see over the newborn king? GJs 21:2 (codd.). τὸ σημεῖον τὸ ἐνάρετον the marvelous sign AcPl Ha 3,16.—σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα (Polyb. 3, 112, 8 σημείων δὲ καὶ τεράτων πᾶν μὲν ἱερόν, πᾶσα δʼ ἦν οἰκία πλήρης; Plut., Alex. 706 [75, 1 sing.]; Appian, Bell. Civ. 2, 36 §144 τέρατα καὶ σημεῖα οὐράνια; 4, 4 §14; Aelian, VH 12, 57; Philo, Mos. 1, 95, Aet. M. 2; Jos., Bell. 1, 28, Ant. 20, 168. Oft. in LXX: Ex 7:3; Dt 4:34; 6:22; 7:19 al.; Is 8:18; 20:3; Jer 39:21; Wsd 8:8; 10:16) J 4:48; Ac 2:43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 7:36; 14:3; 15:12; Ro 15:19; Hb 2:4; 1 Cl 51:5; B 4:14; 5:8. δυνάμεις καὶ τέρατα κ. σημεῖα Ac 2:22; 2 Cor 12:12b (SSchreiber, Paulus als Wundertäter: BZNW 79, ’96) σημεῖα καὶ δυνάμεις Ac 8:13.—1 Cl 25:1; 2 Cl 15:4. SMc-Casland, JBL 76, ’57, 149–52; MWhittaker, Studia Evangelica 5, ’68, 155–58.

β. worked by Satan or his agents to mislead God’s people (s. Iren. 5, 28, 2 [Harv. V 401, 32]) Rv 13:13f; 16:14; 19:20. σημεῖα κ. τέρατα Mt 24:24; Mk 13:22 (GBeasley-Murray, A Commentary on Mk 13, ’57; EGrässer, D. Problem der Parusie-verzögerung, ’57, 152–70); 2 Th 2:9; D 16:4.

ⓑ portent terrifying appearances in the heavens, never before seen, as portents of the last days Lk 21:11, 25 (Appian, Bell. Civ. 4, 4 §14 σημεῖα πολλά around the sun; AscIs 3, 20); Ac 2:19 (cp. Jo 3:3); s. D 16:6. Of that which the seer of the Apocalypse sees ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ Rv 12:1, 3; 15:1. Of the portentous signs in heaven and earth at the death of Jesus GPt 8:28 (cp. Da 6:28 Theod. σημεῖα κ. τέρατα ἐν οὐρανῷ κ. ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; Diod S 38 + 39 Fgm. 5: at the end of each one of the eight ages ordained by God there is a σημεῖον ἐκ γῆς ἢ οὐρανοῦ θαυμάσιον).—On miracles s. SIG 1168–73; RLembert, Das Wunder bei Römern u. Griechen I 1905; RReitzenstein, Hellenist. Wundererzählungen 1906, OWeinreich, Antike Heilungswunder 1909, Gebet u. Wunder: WSchmid Festschr. 1929, 169ff; PWendland, De Fabellis Antiquis earumque ad Christianos Propagatione 1911; FKutsch, Attische Heilgötter u. Heilheroen 1913; WJayne, The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations 1925; RHerzog, D. Wunderheilungen v. Epidaurus ’31; PFiebig, Jüdische Wundergeschichten des ntl. Zeitalters 1911; ASchlatter, Das Wunder in d. Synagoge 1912.—RLehmann, Naturwissenschaft u. bibl. Wunderfrage 1930; GNaumann, Die Wertschätzung des Wunders im NT 1903; GTraub, Das Wunder im NT² 1907; KBeth, Die Wunder Jesu 1908; JThompson, Miracles in the NT 1911; LFonck, Die Wunder des Herrn im Ev.² 1907; LFillion, Les miracles de Jésus-Christ 1909/1910; PDausch, Die Wunder Jesu 1912; SEitrem, Nordisk Tidskrift for Filologie 5, 1919, 30–36; RBultmann, Die Gesch. der synopt. Tradition² ’31, 223–60; RJelke, Die Wunder Jesu 1922; GShafto, The Wonders of the Kingdom 1924; JBest, The Miracles of Christ in the Light of our Present Day Knowledge ’37; TTorrance, Expository Studies in St. John’s Miracles ’38; ARichardson, The Miracle Stories of the Gospels ’41; AFridrichsen, Le Problème du Miracle dans le Christianisme primitif: Études d’ Hist. et de Phil. rel. XII 1925; HSchlingensiepen, Die Wunder des NT ’33; OPerels, D. Wunderüberlieferung der Synoptiker ’34; PSaintyves, Essais de folklore biblique 1923; GMarquardt, D. Wunderproblem in d. deutschen prot. Theologie der Gegenwart ’33; GDelling, D. Verständnis des Wunders im NT, ZST 24, ’55, 265–80, Zur Beurteilung des Wunders durch d. Antike: Studien zum NT ’70, 53–71; SMcCasland, Signs and Wonders, JBL 76, ’57, 149–52; CBarrett, The Gosp. Acc. to John ’55, 62–65; JCharlier, La notion de signe (sêmeion) dans J: RSPT 43, ’59, 434–48; PRiga, Signs of Glory (J): Int 17, ’63, 402–24; HvanderLoos, The Miracles of Jesus ’65; WNicol, The Semeia in the Fourth Gosp. ’72; for Acts s. FNeirynck, the Miracle Stories in the Acts of the Apostles, An Introduction, in Les Actes des Apôtres, ed. JKremer ’79, 169–213.—Esp. on the healing of demoniacs JWeiss, RE IV 408ff; JJaeger, Ist Jesus Christus ein Suggestionstherapeut gewesen? 1918; KKnur, M.D., Christus medicus? 1905; KDusberger, Bibel u. Kirche ’51, 114–17 (foretoken).—RGrant, Miracle and Natural Law in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Thought ’52. S. also the lit. s.v. δαιμόνιον 2.—See further MWestermann, ed. ΠΑΡΑΔΟΞΑΓΡΑΦΟΙ, Scriptores Rerum Mirabilium Graeci, 1839.—B. 914. DELG s.v. σῆμα. M-M. DBS XII 1281–1330. EDNT. ABD IV 869 (lit.). TW. Spicq. Sv.

ἀποστολή, ῆς, ἡ (s. ἀποστέλλω; Eur., Thu., et al. in var. mngs.; Diod S 36, 1 [ἀ. στρατιωτῶν=‘sending out’ of troops]; ins, pap, LXX; TestNapht 2:1; EpArist 15; Jos., Ant. 20, 50, Vi. 268) in our lit. only of God’s elite emissaries for the Christian message office of a special emissary, apostleship, office of an apostle, assignment w. διακονία Ac 1:25. Used esp. by Paul to designate his position: ἡ σφραγίς μου τ. ἀποστολῆς the seal (official confirmation) of my apostleship 1 Cor 9:2. ἐνεργεῖν τινι εἰς ἀ. make someone capable of being an apostle Gal 2:8. λαμβάνειν ἀποστολὴν εἰς ὑπακοὴν πίστεως receive apostleship, to bring about obedience that is consonant with faith Ro 1:5.—DELG s.v. στέλλω A. M-M. TW.