noun · neuter
charagmem
Strong’sG5480
sculpture, a stamp, sign
stem charagm-8 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* χάραγμα, -τος, τό
(< χαράσσω, to engrave),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5480 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhar'-ag-mah
a scratch or etching, i.e. stamp (as a badge of servitude), or scupltured figure (statue)
Fromfrom the same as G5482;
King Jamesgraven, mark.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(χαράσσω) any mark engraved, imprinted, or branded, χ. ἐχίδνης the serpent's mark, i. e. its bite, sting, NT+5th c.BC+; χ. χειρός, i.e. writing, Refs 6th c.AD+; χαράγματα παμβασιλῆος, of an imperial missive, Epic. in Refs: absolutely, inscription, Refs 4th c.AD+; stamped document, Refs 1st c.AD+; brand on a camel, Refs 2nd c.AD+; χ. τέχνης carved work, NT; τὸ χ. τοῦ νομίσματος the impress on the coin, Refs 1st c.AD+; hence,
2 stamped money, coin, Refs 1st c.BC+
3 metaphorically, mark, stamp, character, τὸ τῆς μονάδος σημαντικὸν χ. Refs
4 endorsement, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | charagmem | charagmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | charagmeu | charagmeiu |
| to, for dative | charagme1×χαράγματι | charagmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
charagme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
charagme“image”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 17:29… nomizarō chruso ē arguro ē litho, charagme technau kai enthumēsiau anthrōpou, tem theiem …… gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
charagmem7×
Revelation 13:16… kai toin douloin, hina dōaleia autoi charagmem epi tau cheirau autoiu tau dexau …… free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on …
Revelation 13:17… pōlara ei mē tos echarōntos tem charagmem, tem onomem teu thēreu ē ton …… or sell unless he had the mark — the name of the beast or …
Revelation 14:9… kai tan eikonan auteu, kai labatō charagmem epi teu metōpeu autou ē epi …… and its image and receives its mark on his forehead or on his …
Revelation 14:11… auteu, kai ei tinos labatō tem charagmem teu onomeu auteu.… or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Revelation 16:2… epi toin anthrōpoin toin echarōntoin tem charagmem teu thēreu kai toin proskunarōntoin ta …… out on those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its …
Revelation 19:20… en hei planata toin labarantoin tem charagmem teu thēreu kai toin proskunarōntoin ta …… signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its …
Revelation 20:4… eikonan auteu kai ouk labala tem charagmem epi tem metōpem kai epi tan …… image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And …