Lexicon
ἐνδείκνυμι
endeiknumi
G1731
G:V Greek

to show

11
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7
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Greek
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endeiknumi describes making something evident through a displayed quality, action, or attribute.

The verb most often marks the making-evident of a quality or conduct: love, faith, gentleness, earnestness, and the law’s work are set before others in the cited clauses. It also describes God making grace, patience, power, or wrath evident in stated purposes and actions.

Senses in use

  1. Making qualities or conduct evident · dominant

    Present participial forms accompany conduct described as love, good faith, and gentleness: in 2 Corinthians 8:24 the APB renders a demonstration of love before the assemblies, while Titus 2:10 and Titus 3:2 render conduct as “showing all good faith” and “showing all gentleness.” In Hebrews 6:10 and Hebrews 6:11, the clause concerns love already shown in service and the earnestness desired until the end; Romans 2:15 likewise places the form with the work of the law made evident in hearts.

  2. Making divine qualities or power evident · common

    Aorist middle subjunctive and infinitive forms occur in purpose statements about what God may make evident. In 1 Timothy 1:16 the APB renders Christ Jesus displaying complete patience; Ephesians 2:7 speaks of showing the surpassing riches of grace, and Romans 9:17 and Romans 9:22 set power and wrath within stated divine purposes.

  3. Showing harm done to another · rare

    In 2 Timothy 4:14, the aorist middle indicative is connected with Alexander the coppersmith and the harm done to the speaker; the APB renders the clause, “did me much harm.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses “show,” “showing,” or “display,” and in 2 Corinthians 8:24 it uses “demonstration.” In 2 Timothy 4:14 it instead renders the clause as harm done; these are verse-level renderings rather than fixed word alignments.

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