13:14. ‘Sign’

Greek #4592, sēmĕiŏn, translates the Hebrew #0226, ‘an indication’, especially ceremonially or supernaturally, also translated ‘miracle’, ‘sign’, ‘token’, ‘wonder’.

 

Hebrew ’ōwth, ‘a signal literally or figuratively, as a flag, beacon, monument’, ‘prodigy’, ‘evidence’, etc.  Also translated ‘mark’, ‘miracle’, ‘(en)sign’, ‘token’.

 

13:14. ‘Image’

Greek #1504 ĕikōn, ‘a likeness’, i.e. literally ‘statue’, ‘profile’, or figuratively ‘representation’, ‘resemblance’, also translated ‘image’.

 

Compare Hebrew #06755, as found in Daniel 2:31, et.seq., tselem, (from #06754), ‘an idolatrous figure’.  #06754, ‘a phantom’, i.e. figuratively ‘illusion’, ‘resemblance’; hence a ‘representative figure’, especially ‘an idol’.

 

13:17. ‘Mark’

Greek #5480 charagma, ‘something graven or sculptured’, ‘a mark cut in’, ‘stamp’.  ‘A badge of servitude’.

Consider also Greek #4696 spilŏs ‘a spot’, ‘defect’, ‘disgrace’. (#784 aspilŏs ‘without spot’.)  The mark of an idolater may be referred to as a “spot”.  In the New Testament it may be referred to in: Eph. 5:27; 1 Tim. 6:14; 2 Peter 3:14.

 

Hebrew #03971 m’ûwm, ‘spot’ or ‘blemish’ in: Deut. 32:5; Job 11:15; Song of Sol. 4:7.

 

13:18. ‘Man’

Greek #444 anthrōpŏs ‘Man (Human)’, ‘manfaced, i.e. a human being’. 

 

Hebrew #120 ’âdâm.  Note that Ezekiel‘s creatures had “faces as a man”, i.e., were ‘manfaced’, therefore a human being. (Ezek. 1:10 ’âdâm).

 

14:1. ‘Zion’

Greek #4622 Siōn ‘a hill of Jerusalem’, figuratively, ‘the Church’.  Note that KJV and RSV translate two different spellings of this word:

 

Hebrew #06726 Tsîyôwn = Zion, same as #06725: ‘a monumental or guiding pillar’, ‘sign’, ‘title’, ‘waymark’.

Hebrew #07865 Sîy’ôn = ‘Sion’, ‘peak’, ‘the summit of Mt. Hermon’, from 07863, ‘elevation’, ‘excellency’