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χάραγμα
cháragma · Greek · Strong's G5480 · 8 occurrences
The KJV renders 13 different Hebrew and Greek words as “mark”
What it means
a scratch or etching, i.e. stamp (as a badge of servitude), or scupltured figure (statue)
from the same as G5482 (χάραξ);
How the KJV renders it
graven, mark
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“mark”
“graven”
also renders chârash (H2790), chârath (H2801)
Answers that weigh this word
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- Is hell eternal conscious torment or annihilation?
- Is the rapture biblical?
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?
- Are the dead conscious, or do they sleep until the resurrection?
- What happens to a person immediately after death?
Where it appears
8 occurrences in the Greek text.
Acts 17:29 · N-DSN
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
Revelation 13:16 · N-ASN
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads;
Revelation 13:17 · N-ASN
and that no one would be able to buy or to sell unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Revelation 14:9 · N-ASN
Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Revelation 14:11 · N-ASN
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
Revelation 16:2 · N-ASN
The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and painful sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
Revelation 19:20 N-ASNRevelation 20:4 N-ASN
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.