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Sign

אוֹתStrong’s H0226

ot

Appears in 78 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ot is the Hebrew word usually translated “sign”, “signs” and “sign of”. It appears in 78 verses of the Old Testament.

“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
Genesis 1:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. Sign, signala distinguishing mark · banner · remembrance · miraculous sign · omen · warning
  2. Token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof
How it's translated
  • a sign 21
  • the sign 13
  • the signs 10
  • signs 6
  • a sign of 4
  • signs my 4
  • for a sign 3
  • signs his 3

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

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 15
  • Deuteronomy 12
  • Isaiah 11
  • Psalms 7
  • Genesis 6
  • Numbers 5

14 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 78 verses, by book
Joshua 3
2:124:624:17
Judges 1
6:17
2 Kings 3
19:2920:820:9
Nehemiah 1
9:10
Job 1
21:29
Hebrew dictionary

אוֹת ot · sign

: miraculous 1) sign, signal 1a) a distinguishing mark 1b) banner 1c) remembrance 1d) miraculous sign 1e) omen 1f) warning 2) token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SIGN, noun

[Latin signum; Gr. deicnumt.]

  1. A token; something by which another thing is shown or represented; any visible thing, any motion, appearance or event which indicates the existence or approach of something else.
  2. A motion, action, nod or gesture indicating a wish or command. Luke 1:62“They made signs to his father, how he would have him called” Luke 1:62
  3. A wonder; a miracle; a prodigy; a remarkable transaction, event or phenomenon. Romans 15:19Luke 1:62“Through mighty signs and wonders. 1” Romans 15:19
  4. Some visible transaction, event or appearance intended as proof or evidence of something else; hence; proof; evidence by sight. Judges 6:17“Show me a sign that thou talkest with me” Judges 6:17
All definitions and other forms of “sign”
  1. Something hung or set near a house or over a door, to give notice of the tenant's occupation, or what is made or sold within; as a trader's sign; a tailor; s sign; the sign of the eagle.
  2. A memorial or monument; something to preserve the memory of a thing. Numbers 16:38“What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign” Numbers 26:10
  3. Visible mark or representation; as an outward sign of and inward and spiritual grace.
  4. A mark of distinction.
  5. Typical representation.
  6. In astronomy, the twelfth part of the ecliptic.
  7. In algebra, a character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed by them; as the sign + plus prefixed to a quantity, indicates that the quantity is to be added; the sign - minus, denotes that the quantity to which it is prefixed is to subtracted.
  8. The subscription of one's name; signature; as a sign manual.
  9. Among physicians, an appearance or symptom in the human body, which indicate its condition as to health or disease.
  10. In music, any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.

SIGN, verb transitive

sine.

  1. To mark with characters or one's name.
  2. To signify; to represent typically. [Not in use.]
  3. To mark.

SIGN, verb intransitive

To be a sign or omen.

    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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.