STRONGS NUMBER H4159


Word Summary
mopheth: a wonder, sign, portent
Original Word: מוֹפֵת
Transliteration: mopheth
Phonetic Spelling: (mo-faith')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a wonder, sign, portent
Meaning: a miracle, a token, omen
Strong's Concordance
miracle, sign, wondered at

Or mopheth {mo-faith'}; from yaphah in the sense of conspicuousness; a miracle; by implication, a token or omen -- miracle, sign, wonder(-ed at).

see HEBREW yaphah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4159. mopheth

מוֺפֵתnoun masculineDeuteronomy 29:2 wonder, sign, portent (= מאֹפֵת‎) — מוֺפֵתExodus 7:9 14t.; מוֺפֶתְכֶםEzekiel 12:11; מוֺפְתִיםDeuteronomy 4:34 4t.; מֹפְתִים6:22 9t.; מוֺפְתַיExodus 7:3; 11:9; מוֺפְתָיוPsalm 78:43; מֹפְתָיו1 Chronicles 16:12; Psalm 105:5

1 wonder, as special display of God's power Exodus 7:3; 11:9; Psalm 105:5; 1 Chronicles 16:12; Joel 3:3; by Moses and Aaron Exodus 4:21; 11:10; compare 7:9 (in mouth of Pharaoh), by false prophets Deuteronomy 13:2; 13:3 ("" אות‎); usually "" אות4:34; 6:22; 7:19; 26:8; 29:2; 34:11; Psalm 78:43; 105:27; 135:9; Jeremiah 32:20-21, Nehemiah 9:10; applied to effect of Yahweh's curse Deuteronomy 28:46 ("" אות‎); to one protected by ׳יPsalm 71:7.

2 sign or token of future event (compare אוֺת‎) 1 Kings 13:3 (twice in verse); 13:5; 2 Chronicles 32:24, 31; symbolic act Isaiah 20:3 ("" אות‎); as such the term is applied to persons 8:18 ("" אות‎) Ezekiel 12:6, 11; 24:24, 27; compareמ ׳אַנְשֵׁיZechariah 3:8 men who serve as a symbol or sign. — Vb. used, of divine act, is נתןExodus 7:9 etc.,שׂיםJeremiah 32:20; שׂים‎ also of entrusting to human power Exodus 4:21, compare דִּבֶּר1 Kings 13:3; of human agency עשׂהExodus 4:21; 11:10, נתן1 Kings 13:3, 5.