Word Summary
anadeiknymi: to lift up and show, show forth
Original Word: ἀναδείκνυμιTransliteration: anadeiknymi
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ad-ike'-noo-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to lift up and show, show forth
Meaning: to lift up and show, show forth
Strong's Concordance
appoint, show.
From ana and deiknuo; to exhibit, i.e. (by implication) to indicate, appoint -- appoint, shew.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK deiknuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 322: ἀναδείκνυμιἀναδείκνυμι: 1 aorist
ἀνέδειξα (imperative
ἀνάδειξον; from
Sophocles down);
to lift up anything
on high and exhibit it for all to behold (German
aufzeigen); hence, to show accurately, clearly, to disclose what was hidden (2 Macc. 2:8 cf. 6):
Acts 1:24 (show which of these two thou hast chosen). Hence,
ἀναδείκνυμι τινα,
to proclaim anyone as elected to an office, to announce as appointed (king, general, etc., messenger):
Luke 10:1 (2 Macc. 9:14, 23, 25 2Macc. 10:11 2Macc. 14:12, 26; 1 Esdr. 1:35 1 Esdr. 8:23;
Polybius 4, 48, 3; 51, 3;
Diodorus 1:66; 13, 98;
Plutarch, Caes. 37, etc.;
Herodian, 2, 12, 5 (3), others). Cf.
Winer's De verb. comp. Part iii., p. 12f.