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
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.
Every verse where G1718 appears in the Book of Matthew — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
