אוֹתʼôwth
sign
Pronunciation: oth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H226
Meanings
1. sign, pledge, token (Genesis 4:15; Joshua 2:12; Exodus 12:13)
2. signs, omens (1 Samuel 10:7; 1 Samuel 10:9; 1 Samuel 10:1)
3. sign, symbol (Isaiah 8:18; Ezekiel 4:3)
4. signs, miracles (Exodus 4:8; Exodus 4:9; Exodus 7:3)
5. signs, memorials (Joshua 4:6; Numbers 17:3; Numbers 17:25)
6. sign, pledge (Genesis 9:12; Genesis 9:13; Genesis 9:17)
7. ensigns, standards (Numbers 2:2; Psalms 74:4)
8. signs, tokens (Genesis 1:14; Jeremiah 10:2; Psalms 65:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 79 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.
- Genesis 4:15 The Lord replied, “No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.
- Genesis 9:12 Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come.
- Genesis 9:13 I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.
- Genesis 9:17 Then God said to Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth.”
- Genesis 17:11 You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:14, 4:15, 9:12, 9:13, 9:17, 17:11
- Exodus 3:12, 4:8, 4:9, 4:17, 4:28, 4:30, 7:3, 8:23, 10:1, 10:2, 12:13, 13:9, 13:16, 31:13, 31:17
- Numbers 2:2, 14:11, 14:22, 16:38, 17:10
- Deuteronomy 4:34, 6:8, 6:22, 7:19, 11:3, 11:18, 13:1, 13:2, 26:8, 28:46, 29:3, 34:11
- Joshua 2:12, 4:6, 24:17
- Judges 6:17
- 1 Samuel 2:34, 10:7, 10:9, 14:10
- 2 Kings 19:29, 20:8, 20:9
- Nehemiah 9:10
- Job 21:29
- Psalms 65:8, 74:4, 74:9, 78:43, 86:17, 105:27, 135:9
- Isaiah 7:11, 7:14, 8:18, 19:20, 20:3, 37:30, 38:7, 38:22, 44:25, 55:13, 66:19
- Jeremiah 10:2, 32:20, 32:21, 44:29
- Ezekiel 4:3, 14:8, 20:12, 20:20
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).