אוֹת
ot
sign: miraculous
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Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "ot" (H0226G) is a term that conveys the idea of a miraculous sign. This sign is not just a physical phenomenon, but it is deeply connected to the realm of covenant and promise. In the 47 instances where "ot" appears in the Bible, it is often used to describe a supernatural event that serves as a tangible representation of God's presence, power, and commitment to His people. The word "ot" is not limited to a specific context or genre of literature. It appears in both the Old Testament narrative and poetry, as well as in prophetic writings. This suggests that the concept of a miraculous sign is a fundamental aspect of the Hebrew understanding of God's relationship with humanity. The use of "ot" in various contexts underscores its significance as a means of communication between God and His people, and as a reminder of the promises and covenants that underlie their relationship. In summary, the Hebrew word "ot" is a term that represents a miraculous sign that is deeply connected to the realm of covenant and promise. Its appearance in 47 instances throughout the Bible highlights its importance as a means of communication between God and His people, and as a reminder of the promises and covenants that underlie their relationship.
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Occurrences in Scripture
47 total occurrences across the text
and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
Psalms 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
Psalms 74:9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Psalms 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Psalms 86:17Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Psalms 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Psalms 135:9He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 38:22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
Isaiah 8:18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
Isaiah 19:20It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.
Isaiah 38:7This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
Jeremiah 10:2Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 32:20who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as it is today;
Jeremiah 32:21and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
Jeremiah 44:29“ ‘This will be the sign to you,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’
Isaiah 7:11“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
Exodus 4:28Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
Exodus 4:30Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus 3:12He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
Exodus 4:8“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exodus 4:8“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exodus 4:9It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
Exodus 4:17You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
Exodus 7:3I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:23I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.” ’ ”
Exodus 10:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;
Exodus 10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
Numbers 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
Numbers 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
Deuteronomy 26:8Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
Deuteronomy 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 6:22and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
Deuteronomy 7:19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deuteronomy 11:3his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
Deuteronomy 13:1If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
Deuteronomy 13:2and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”
Deuteronomy 28:46They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.
Deuteronomy 29:3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
Deuteronomy 34:11in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Joshua 24:17for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
Judges 6:17He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
1 Samuel 2:34This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
1 Samuel 10:7Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.
1 Samuel 10:9It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.
2 Kings 20:8Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
2 Kings 20:9Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”