Word Summary
tekmērion: a sure sign
Original Word: τεκμήριονTransliteration: tekmērion
Phonetic Spelling: (tek-may'-ree-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a sure sign
Meaning: a sure sign
Strong's Concordance
infallible proof.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of tekmar (a goal or fixed limit); a token (as defining a fact), i.e. Criterion of certainty -- infallible proof.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5039: τεκμήριοντεκμήριον,
τεκμηριου,
τό (from
τεκμαίρω to show or prove by sure signs; from
τέκμαρ a sign), from
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down,
that from which something is surely and plainly known; an indubitable evidence, a proof (
Hesychius τεκμήριον.
σημεῖον ἀληθές):
Acts 1:3 (Wis. 5:11; 3Macc. 3:24).