UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to seal, to put a seal on, to make secure

Semantic entry: 6.55

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Instruments Used in Marking and Writing

Definition: to use a seal to close or to make something secure

Notes: For a discussion of some of the translational problems involved with ‘seal,’ see 6.54: σφραγίς.|From the immediate context of RV REV 5:1 · LV REV 5:1 · Read together REV 5:1 it is not possible to determine whether the scroll in question had seven seals on the outside or whether the scroll was sealed at seven different points. However, since according to chapter six of Revelation the seals were broken one after another, it would appear as though the scroll had been sealed at seven different places as it had been rolled up.

REV 5:1: RV REV 5:1 · LV REV 5:1 · Read together REV 5:1

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OET-RV REV 5:1

5 Then I saw a scroll in the right-hand of the one sitting on the throne. It had writing on both sides, and had been sealed with seven wax seals.

OET-LV REV 5:1

5 And I _saw on the right hand of _the one sitting on the throne a_scroll, having _been _written inside and behind, having _been _sealed _up seven with _seals.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κατασφραγίζω

Form 1

Sense 1: to seal, to put a seal on, to make secure