εὔσημος
eúsēmos · G2154 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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intelligible, easily understandable
Pertaining to being easily understood
Examples1 Corinthians 14:9 So you too, unless you produce intelligible speech by the tongue, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will just be talking to the air.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- φανερός phanerós · G5318 · well known, widely known, clearly known
- φανερός focuses on visibility and manifestness, while εὔσημος emphasizes intelligibility through good marking/signification
- δῆλος dēlos · G1212 · clearly known, easily known, evident
- δῆλος denotes what is evident or clear to understanding, overlapping with εὔσημος in the sense of being easily comprehensible
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἄδηλος ádēlos · G82 · not evident, not perceived, unseen
- ἄδηλος (unclear, uncertain) is the direct lexical opposite of εὔσημος (well-marked, easily understood)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Intelligible, easily understandable32.19
- In 1 Corinthians 14:9, Paul asks, “unless you produce intelligible speech by the tongue, how will it be known what is spoken?” using this word for speech that can be readily understood.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὔσημον (εὖ and σῆμα a sign), well-marked, clear and definite, distinct: λόγος, 1 Cor…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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