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Strong's #4742: stigma (pronounced stig'-mah)

from a primary stizo (to "stick", i.e. prick); a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership), i.e. (figuratively) scar of service:--mark.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stigma

1) a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. To ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or the stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotee' s who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a primary stizo (to "stick" , i.e. prick)

Citing in TDNT: 7:657, 1086




Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

Galatians 6:17: "in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."









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