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τεκμήριονStrong’s G5039

tekmērion

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Tekmērion is the Greek word usually translated “proofs”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:”
Acts 1:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “proofs”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • proofs 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    τεκμήριον tekmērion · clear proof

    τεκμήριον, -ου, τό (τέκμαρ, a mark, sign), [in LXX: Wis.5:4 19:13, 3Ma.3:24 * ;] a sure sign, a positive proof: Act.1:1-26 (for exx., see MM, xxiv).† SYN.: ἔνδειγμα, q.v (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “proof” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PROOF,noun

    1. Trial; essay; experiment; any effort, process or operation that ascertains truth or fact.
    2. In law and logic, that degree of evidence which convinces the mind of the certainty of truth of fact, and produces belief. proof is derived from personal knowledge, or from the testimony of others, or from conclusive reasoning. proof differs from demonstration, which is applicable only to those truths of which the contrary is inconceivable.
    3. Firmness or hardness that resists impression, or yields not to force; impenetrability of physical bodies; as a wall that is of proof against shot.
    4. Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken; as a mind or virtue that is proof against the arts of seduction and the assaults of temptation.
    All definitions
    1. The proof of spirits consists in little bubbles which appear on the top of the liquor after agitation, called the bead, and by the French, chapelet.
    2. The degree of strength in spirit; as high proof; first proof; second, third or fourth proof
    3. In printing and engraving, a rough impression of a sheet, taken for correction; plural proofs, not proves.
    4. Armor sufficiently firm to resist impression. [Not used.]

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.