Greek verb · G4591
σημαίνω
semainosay-mah'-ee-no
to signify
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sēmaínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4591is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4591
to indicate
The King James renders it: signify.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
semaino is rendered "to signify". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 12:33He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
John 12:33σημαίνων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- signifying3
- he signified2
- to specify1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σημαίνων3
- ἐσήμανεν2
- σημᾶναι.¶1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-PAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
John
three uses
He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
- σημαίνωνsemainonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: signifying
This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
- σημαίνωνsemainonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: signifying
Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him, “Follow Me.”
- σημαίνωνsemainonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: signifying
Acts
two uses
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- ἐσήμανενesemanenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he signified
For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
- σημᾶναι.¶semanaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to specify
Revelation
one use
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
- ἐσήμανενesemanenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He signified
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.