Word Summary
syssēmon: a fixed sign
Original Word: σύσσημονTransliteration: syssēmon
Phonetic Spelling: (soos'-say-mon)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a fixed sign
Meaning: a fixed sign
Strong's Concordance
signal, sign
Neuter of a compound of sun and the base of semaino; a sign in common, i.e. Preconcerted signal -- token.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK semaino
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4953: σύσσημονσύσσημον (
Tdf. συνσημον (cf.
σύν, II. at the end)),
συσσημου,
τό (
σύν and
σῆμα),
a common sign or concerted signal, a sign given according to agreement:
Mark 14:44. (
Diodorus,
Strabo,
Plutarch, others; for
נֵס, a standard,
Isaiah 5:26;
Isaiah 49:22;
Isaiah 62:10.) The word is condemned by
Phrynichus, edition Lob., p. 418, who remarks that
Menander was the first to use it; cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 196.