Quick Definition
I sight, I appear
Strong's Definition
to show, i.e. (reflexively) appear, or (passively) to have pointed out
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G5316 (φαίνω);
KJV Usage: (should) appear, discover
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀναφαίνω: 1 aorist ἀνεφανα, Doric for the more common ἀνεφηνα (Act_21:3 R T WH (with Erasm., Stephanus Thesaurus, Mill); cf. Passow, p. 2199; (Veitch, and Liddell and Scott, under the word φαίνω; Winers Grammar, 89 (85); Buttmann, 41 (35)); see ἐπιφαίνω); passive (present ἀναφαίνομαι); 2 aorist ἀνεφανην; (from Homer down); to bring to light, hold up to view, show; passive to appear, be made apparent: Luk_19:11. An unusual phrase is ἀναφανέντες τήν τήν Κύπρον having sighted Cyprus, for ἀναφανεισης ἡμῖν τῆς Κύπρου, Act_21:3; cf. Buttmann, 190 (164); Winers Grammar, § 39, 1 a., p. 260 (244); here Rst T WH (see above) read ἀναφάναντες ... τήν Κύπρον after we had rendered Cyprus visible (to us); (R. V. had come in sight of Cyprus.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναφαίνω anaphainō 2x
to bring to light, display; mid. and pass. to appear, Luk_19:11 ; a nautical term, to come in sight of, Act_21:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀνα -φαίνομαι ,
[in LXX for H6663 hi ., H1570 ;]
to bring to light, make to appear: ἀναφάναντες τ . Κύπρον , i.e . having sighted C .: Act_21:3 WH ; pass ., to appear, be made manifest: Luk_19:11 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναφαίνω [page 39]
The verb occurs in the interesting Christian letter, P Oxy VI. 939 .3 (iv/A.D.) θεοῦ γνῶσις ἀνεφάνη ἅπασιν ἡμῖν : cf. Luk_19:11 παραχρῆμα μέλλει ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἀναφαίνεσθαι . From iii/A.D. comes the defixio in Wϋnsch AF , no. 4 .37 , τὸν μονογενῆ , τὸν ἐξ αὑτοῦ ἀναφανέντα , of a god who receives the names Ωη Ἰάω εεηαφ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀναφαίνω "to make to give light, make to blaze up", ξύλα Od. "to bring to light, shew forth, display", Hom. , attic; ἀν. μελέων νόμους Ar. "to proclaim, declare", βασιλέα ἀν. τινά Pind. ; ἀν. πόλιν "to proclaim" it victor in the games, id=Pind. :—c. inf., ἀναφανῶ σε τόδε ὀνομάζειν "I proclaim that" they call thee by this name, i. e. order that thou be so named, Eur. of things, "to appoint", νόμους Ar. ἀναφάναντες τὴν Κύπρον "having opened, come in sight of", Cyprus, NTest. Pass., with fut. mid. ἀναφανήσομαι or -φανοῦμαι : perf. ἀναπέφαμμαι, or in mid. form -πέφηνα:— "to be shewn forth, come to light or into sight, appear plainly", Hom. , etc. "to reappear", Hdt. ἀναφανῆναι μούναρχος "to be declared" king, id=Hdt. ; ἀναφαίνεσθαι σεσωσμένος "to be plainly" in safety, Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-φαίνομαι
[in LXX for צָדַק hi., גָּלַשׁ ;]
to bring to light, make to appear: ἀναφάναντες τ. Κύπρον, i.e. having sighted C.: Act.21:3 WH; pass., to appear, be made manifest: Luk.19:11
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