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Lexicon
episémos: Notable, distinguished, marked, prominent

Original Word: ἐπίσημος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: episémos
Pronunciation: eh-PEE-say-mos
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-is'-ay-mos)
KJV: notable, of note
NASB: notorious, outstanding
Word Origin: [from G1909 (ἐπί - over) and some form of the base of G4591 (σημαίνω - indicate)]

1. remarkable
2. (figuratively) eminent

Strong's Exhaustive 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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from epi and the same as sémainó
Definition
bearing a mark, notable
NASB Translation
notorious (1), outstanding (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1978: ἐπίσημος

ἐπίσημος, 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).

Forms and Transliterations
επίσημα επισημοι επίσημοι ἐπίσημοι επισημον επίσημον ἐπίσημον επίσημος episemoi episēmoi epísemoi epísēmoi episemon episēmon epísemon epísēmon
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 27:16 Adj-AMS
GRK: τότε δέσμιον ἐπίσημον λεγόμενον Ἰησοῦν
NAS: they were holding a notorious prisoner,
KJV: then a notable prisoner,
INT: then a prisoner notable called

Romans 16:7 Adj-NMP
GRK: οἵτινές εἰσιν ἐπίσημοι ἐν τοῖς
NAS: who are outstanding among
KJV: who are of note among the apostles,
INT: who are of note among the

Strong's Greek 1978
2 Occurrences


ἐπίσημοι — 1 Occ.
ἐπίσημον — 1 Occ.

1977
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