Dictionaries :: Signify

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Signify:

"to give a sign, indicate" (sema, "a sign:" cp. SIGN, No. 1), "to signify," is so translated in Jhn 12:33; 18:32; 21:19; Act 11:28; 25:27; Rev 1:1, where perhaps the suggestion is that of expressing by signs.

Signify:

"to make plain" (delos, "evident"), is translated "to signify" in 1Cr 1:11, RV, "it hath been signified" (AV, "declared"); Hbr 9:8; 12:27; 1Pe 1:11, AV (RV, "Point unto"); 2Pe 1:14, RV, "signified" (AV, "hath showed").
See POINT (unto).

Signify:

"to manifest, make known," is translated "signify" in Act 23:15; Act 23:22, RV (AV, "hath showed").
See APPEAR, No. 5.

Note: In Act 21:26, AV, diangello, "to announce," is rendered "to signify" (RV, "declaring").