Lexical Summary emphanizō: to exhibit, appear (in person), to declare Original Word: ἐμφανίζωTransliteration: emphanizō Phonetic Spelling: (em-fan-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to exhibit, appear (in person), to declare Meaning: to exhibit, appear (in person), to declare Strong's Concordance appear, declare plainly, inform, discloseFrom emphanes; to exhibit (in person) or disclose (by words) -- appear, declare (plainly), inform, (will) manifest, shew, signify. see GREEK emphanes Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1718: ἐμφανίζωἐμφανίζω (see ἐν, III. 3); future ἐμφανίσω (Buttmann, 37 (32)); 1 aorist ἐνεφανισα; 1 aorist passive ἐνεφανίσθην; from Xenophon, and Plato down; (ἐμφανής); 1. to manifest, exhibit to view: ἑαυτόν τίνι, properly, to present oneself to the sight of another, manifest oneself to (Exodus 33:13), John 14:22; metaphorically of Christ giving evidence by the action of the Holy Spirit on the souls of the disciples that he is alive in heaven, John 14:21. Passive to Show oneself, come to view, appear, be manifest: τίνι (of spectres, Wis. 17:4; αὐτοῖς Θεούς ἐμφανίζεσθαι λέγοντες, Diag. Laërtius prooem. 7; so of God, Josephus, Antiquities 1, 13, 1), Matthew 27:53; τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, of Christ appearing before God in heaven, Hebrews 9:24; (of God imparting to souls the knowledge of himself, Wis. 1:2; Theophilus of Antioch ad Autol. 1, 2, 4). 2. to indicate, disclose, declare, make known: followed by ὅτι, Hebrews 11:14; with the dative of person Acts 23:15; τί πρός τινα, Acts 23:22; τί κατά τίνος, to report or declare a thing against a person, to inform against one, Acts 24:1; Acts 25:2; περί τίνος, about one, Acts 25:15. (Synonym: see δηλόω.) |
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