ἐμφανίζω
to manifest
‘to manifest’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (30%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1718 appears — 10 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
John 2 verses
- John 14:21 ἐμφανίσω fut act ind 1sg One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
- John 14:22 ἐμφανίζειν pres act inf Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 23:15 ἐμφανίσατε aor act impv 2pl Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 23:22 ἐνεφάνισας aor act ind 2sg So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
- Acts 24:1 ἐνεφάνισαν aor act ind 3pl After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.
- Acts 25:2 ἐνεφάνισάν aor act ind 3pl Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
- Acts 25:15 ἐνεφάνισαν aor act ind 3pl about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 9:24 ἐμφανισθῆναι aor pass inf For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
- Hebrews 11:14 ἐμφανίζουσιν pres act ind 3pl For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εμφανιζω — transliterated emphanízō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to manifest.” Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (50% of all occurrences). Spanning 10 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 27:53. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1718 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 3 verses · 30%
- Johannine 2 verses · 20%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Informed 3×
- American Standard Version: Informed 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Presented their case 2×, Reveal 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Appeared 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1718 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1718 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1718 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1718 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to manifest, exhibit to view
- to show one's self, come to view, appear, be manifest
- to indicate, disclose, declare, make known
Word origin
Derived from εμφανης (emphanḗs) (G1717) — manifest.
From G1717 ; to exhibit (in person) or disclose (by words): - appear declare (plainly) inform (will) manifest shew signify.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G1718 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνεφάνισαν enephánisan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 24:1 | 2 |
| ἐμφανίζειν emphanízein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | John 14:22 | 1 |
| ἐμφανίζουσιν emphanízousin | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:14 | 1 |
| ἐμφανίσατε emphanísate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Acts 23:15 | 1 |
| ἐμφανίσω emphanísō | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | John 14:21 | 1 |
| ἐμφανισθῆναι emphanisthē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Hebrews 9:24 | 1 |
| ἐνεφάνισάν enephánisán | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 25:2 | 1 |
| ἐνεφάνισας enephánisas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Acts 23:22 | 1 |
| ἐνεφανίσθησαν enephanísthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 27:53 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εμφανιζω appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 3 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 33:13 ἐνφανίζω
- Esther 2:22 ἐνφανίζω
- Isaiah 3:9 ἐνφανίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1718) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 33:13 ἐνφανίζω Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
- Esther 2:22 ἐνφανίζω The thing became known to Mordecai, who shown it to Esther the queen; and Esther told the king [of it] in Mordecai's name.
- Isaiah 3:9 ἐνφανίζω The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1718) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
